Construction of Attitude Scale towards Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)

Abstract

The academic reform necessarily includes changes in admission procedures in various courses, modification in assessment and examination methods. Now education evaluation system has entered into semester based system to introduce Choice Based credit System known as well as CBCS. This study aims to explore the quality of each item of attitude related to choice based credit system (CBCS). Purpose sampling technique has been used for the collection of relevant data in this study. A self-made structured questionnaire was drafted for this study to a group of undergraduate students. After review of previous paper and article, thirty two (32) items has been selected under the different type dimensions i.e., Curriculum and Subject Selection, Evaluation and Feedback, Students Interest, Skill and Development, and Time, in the item pool for this attitude scale. Likert summative five (5) point rating scale was used in this scale/tool. After item analysis, it was found that in the attitude scale six (6) items were eliminated from this tool/scale on the basis on Discrimination Index (DI). The final form of attitude scale twenty six (26) items respectively consider for this scale. Pearson’s product-moment coefficient (r) was used to determine the reliability of the test items. The coefficient of correlation of two tests of attitude scale were found as 0.89 i.e. highly positive correlation. Finally, every effective item was selected for this questionnaire that can be assessing students’ attitude towards choice based credit system successfully. That is significantly reliable.