Development of Attitude Scale Towards Simple Electric Circuits and Assessment of Students’ Attitudes

Science and technology have significant impact in human life. As a basic science, physics has important contributions to the development of science and technology. To follow and understand everyday life and technological developments, physics should be learned well by all students. As Hewitt (1998) states, physics should be educational mainstream for all students. There exist too many factors affecting students’ academic achievements and one of them is students’ attitudes (Ekici, 2002; Kan & Akbaş, 2006; Nuhoğlu, 2008).