Description:
Motivation is one of the main factors in education. It is a dimension that should not be neglected in classes, hard to be comprehended by students, like Science and Mathematics. Thus, the purpose of this study was to develop a Likert-type questionnaire to measure students’ motivation towards Science learning. In order to develop this questionnaire, a pretest form was developed through a literature survey, and presented to experts for their evaluation. After the alterations based on their suggestions, a pilot study with 183 middle school students was held to revise the questionnaire. After the revision, a total of 39 items in the questionnaire was administered to the sample group of 421 elementary school students. By this way, a questionnaire consisting of 23 items were developed. In order to obtain validity, exploratory factor analysis was performed. The results of factor analysis indicated that there are five factors explaining 47% of the total variance in the questionnaire. Moreover, the reliability coefficient (Cronbach Alpha) was found to be .80.