Measurement Problems

By administering the questionnaire to school students, I noticed following difficulties:

1. making difference between strongly agree and agree;
2. understanding negative statements. (I used them as reverse statements).
3. understanding assertive statements
4. understanding some adjectives, e.g., I can maintain privacy in toilet.

Under such awkward conditions,
I converted all statements in interrogative forms so that responses will be binomial and there will be no negative worded statements, e.g.,

Is the lighting condition in class room adequate to learn ?
Is the school building safe ?

Instead of evaluative statements, I am giving importance on cognitive aspects. Attitude has three components : cognitive, affective and behavioural.

Finally, I tried to relate attitude with school attendance and noticed moderate correlation. Hope, in future, I may find its good predictive capacity.

By selecting intrinsically motivating good student for the project, I have to modify the existing questionnaires based on item characteristics and multidimensional models of attitude towards school infrastructure.