St.

John Colleges
Chipeco Avenue, Calamba City

Attitude Targets

Submitted by:

AGNES P. CANICOSA
III-BEED

Submitted to:

DR. ERIBERTO TANGCANGCO

Professor
 ATTITUDE TARGETS

McMillan (1980) defines attitudes as internal states that influence what students are

likely to do.

The internal state can in some degree determine positive or negative or favourable

or unfavourable REACTION toward an object, situation, person, or group of objects,

general environment or group of persons.

G In a learning institution, attitude is contingent on subjects, teachers, other

students, homework and other object or persons.

Some of these attitudes are listed in the table below:

A Positive Attitude Toward A Negative Attitude Toward

1. Learning 1. Cheating
2. Math, Science, English and other 2. Drug use

subjects
3. Assignments 3. Bullying
4. Classroom rules 4. Cutting classes
5. Teachers 5. Dropping out

Three Components or Contributing Factors of Attitude

1. An affective component of positive or negative feelings

 Consists of the emotion or feeling associated with an object or a person

Ex. When the teacher describes students as liking Math or enjoying Art.

2. A cognitive component describing worth or value.

Is an evaluative belief such as thinking something as valuable, useful or

worthless etc.

Ex. In school, students can think History is useless and Science valuable.

3. A behavioural component indicating a willingness or desire to engage in particular

actions.

Responding in a positive way.

G A strong and stable attitude is manifested when all three components are consistent.

Ex. If a student likes Science, the student thinks it is valuable, and reads

Science-related materials at home. It translates that the student has a very

strong positive attitude.

G On the other hand, it is likely that for many students, these components will

contradict one another.

 Ex. Juana may not like English very much but thinks that English is important.

The question is, what would her attitude be, in general sense toward English?

G This trifocal conceptualization has significant implications for identifying

attitude targets.

Question:

Does the assessment need to focus on feelings, thoughts or behaviour?

Answer:

Ex. If the learning target for example is students will have a positive attitude

toward school then the assessment needs to include all the three components since the

general nature of target would need to be consistent with the assessment.