Development and Validation of Prospective Teachers’ Teaching Attitude Scale (PTTAS)

Abstract

The success in teaching profession depends upon the teachers’ attitude towards it. A positive attitude leads to become an effective teacher and vice versa. Present study is an attempt to have an understanding of prospective teachers’ attitude towards teaching profession and to develop a scale for measuring it. The sample of the study consisted of 1716 prospective teachers enrolled in Associate Degree in Education program at Government Colleges for Elementary Teachers across the Punjab Province in Pakistan. Five factors of attitude towards teaching profession were identified through focused group discussion, literature review and factor analysis. These factors were professional belief, professional association, compliance of rules and regulation, volunteerism and self-sufficiency. Internal consistency of the scale was calculated to determine the strength of the scale.