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Assessing General and Specific Attitudes in Human Learning Behavior

An Activity Perspective and a Multilevel Modeling Approach

Jun Sun

University of Texas-Pan American, jsun{at}utpa.edu

Victor L. Willson

Texas A&M University

This article proposes a multilevel modeling approach to study the general and specific attitudes formed in human learning behavior. Based on the premises of activity theory, it conceptualizes the unit of analysis for attitude measurement as a scalable and evolving activity system rather than a single action. Measurement issues related to this conceptualization, including scale development and validation, are discussed with the help of facet analysis and multilevel structural equation modeling techniques. An empirical study was conducted, and the results indicate that this approach is theoretically and methodologically defensible.

Key Words: activity theory • expansive learning • general attitude • specific attitude • measurement validity • facet analysis • multilevel structural equation modeling

This version was published on April 1, 2008

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 68, No. 2, 245-261 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0013164407308510
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