Ethnic differences in students' attitudes to the arts: Providing validity evidence to make comparisons
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Tarih
2020
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Yayıncı
Eurasian Society of Educational Research
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
Previous research suggests that non-cognitive factors play an important role in promoting success at school and beyond, aligning with the multifaceted goals of education. Enhancing students' attitudes to learning in school is expected to have positive impacts on various schooling outcomes. To date, very few studies have focused on measuring and understanding students' attitude to the arts. This study aims to address a gap in current research in this area by introducing instruments designed to measure attitude to dance, drama, music and visual arts. Confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance analyses are employed to examine the factorial validity and measurement equivalence of the scales of attitude to the arts disciplines for different ethnic groups in New Zealand. Findings support the utility of the scales as valid measures of attitude to dance, drama, music and visual arts. Noticeable differences are reported among New Zealand European, Maori, Pasifika and Asian students regarding their attitudes to dance, drama, music and visual arts. © 2020 The Author(s). Open Access - This article is under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Attitude to arts, Ethnicity, Measurement invariance
Kaynak
European Journal of Educational Research
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Scopus Q Değeri
Q2
Cilt
9
Sayı
3
