DEVELOPING A SCALE TO MEASURE THE COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE ATTITUDES OF THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TOWARDS RESEARCH

Determination of university student’s attitude towards pursuance of research as doctorate degree was evaluated in this study with cognitive and affective domain in positive and negative forms. The aim of the study was to construct a measurement scale with a higher level of accuracy to quantify the qualitative responses of the higher education students for research. The measurement scale was a questionnaire, developed in this research work for survey and was standardized by subject experts. The collected data was interpreted with basic statistics and the result showed 82.16% reliability of the survey tool by Cronbach’s Alpha test