Children’s Attitudes Toward Technology Scale (CATS)

Although today's children have become the benefactors of an evolving technological society, few studies have addressed the assessment of their attitudes toward technology. This study describes the development of the Children's Attitude Toward Technology Scale (CATS) with 574 children in a rural school district. Principal components analysis of the CATS followed by varimax rotation indicated that item intercorrelations could be explained by two factors entitled "interest/aptitude" and "alternative preferences." Sub-scales at two test administrations demonstrated good internal consistency and moderate test-retest stability.

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by anonymous, Youth Development Advisorq, University of California,

The tool is user friendly, and would provide teachers and program administrators with good information to assess student attitudes about technology. One concern I have is that the author defines what technology is, and in my opinion the definition is…
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