Ating It Points of View or Opinions Stated Do Not Necessarily Repre- Sent Official National Institute of Validation of an Instrument to Measure Political Attitudes Education Position or Policy
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The Opinionnaire on Political Inttitutions and Participation (OPIP) was designed to measure six dimensions of the overall construct of politica/ attitude. Three studies were undertaken to determine the va/idity and reliability of the instrument, and the OPIP was found to be a valid and reliable instrument for research and evaluations using multi-subject designs. Validation and cross-validation studies indicated that the instrument was construct valid for measuring politica/ attitudes. Re/iabi/ity studies indicated that overall test-retest and internal consistency were moderately high. Studies of the re/iabi/ity of the six subtests indicated that test-retest and internal consistency ranged from moderate to low. In a democratic republic it is logical that the educational system be expected not only to provide young citizens with political knowledge but also to foster attitudes supportive of the institutions and processes of democratic government. Consequently, political/citizenship education has been a main priority of the social studies curriculum in the U.S. since its inception in the public schools around the turn of the century. The importance of attitudinal outcomes of citizenship education in the schools Ct4 has been underscored recently by the objectives of several federally funded 414 national assessments of American youth (National Assessment of Educational C/ Progress, 1973; 1978). Clearly implied by the assessments is the ob/igation of the schools to promote attitudes favoring democratic principles and participation in political processes. Consequently, curriculum direc00 tors, social studies teachers, and educational researchers must attend to is!4 A paper presented to the Special Interest Group/Research in Social Studies Education at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Boston, 1980.
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