Physical Education Teacher Attitudes toward Fitness Tests Scale: Cross-Revalidation and Modification |
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| Authors: | Xiaofen D Keating Jianmin Guan Robert H Ferguson Li Chen Dwan M Bridges |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Curriculum and Instruction , The University of Texas at Austin , xk93@mail.utexas.edu;3. Department of Health and Kinesiology , University of Texas at San Antonio ,;4. Department of Kinesiology and Health , University of Arkansas ,;5. Department of Sport Science , Delaware State University ,;6. School of Kinesiology and Nutritional Science , California State University , Los Angeles, USA |
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| Abstract: | This study aimed to provide further evidence of validity and reliability for the Physical Education Teacher Attitudes toward Fitness Tests Scale (PETAFTS), which consisted of affective and cognitive domains. There were two subdomains in the affective domain (i.e., enjoyment of implementing fitness tests and enjoyment of using test results) and one domain in the cognitive domain (i.e., beliefs in the usefulness of test results). Full-time physical education teachers (N?=?469) from two southwestern states in the United States participated in the study. Reliability and validity of the scale were examined. Alphas were computed for the entire 16-item scale, the affective and cognitive domains, and the two subdomains, respectively, to test the reliability. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was employed to investigate the construct validity. The commonly used CFA indices, such as the chi square (χ2), the comparative fit index (CFI), the Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI), the goodness of fit index (GFI), and the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA), were used to assess the fit of the data to the model. The CFA results suggested that the data from the study did not fit the original model proposed by Keating and Silverman (2004b) Keating, X. D. and Silverman, S. 2004b. Physical education teacher attitudes toward fitness test scale: Development and validation. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 23: 143–161. Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar], resulting in the elimination of item 3. The fitness of the data to the model was improved and deemed acceptable. More studies on the reliability and validity of the scale are needed in the future in order to use the scale with more confidence. |
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| Keywords: | attitude scale youth fitness tests reliability and validity physical education teachers |
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