Improving Science Laboratory Anxiety Scale (SLAS)

It is known that anxiety is the collection of the responses to undesired situation for an organism. In general, it can be seen that not only test anxiety but also mathematics and science anxieties have been studying by researchers. In addition social anxiety has been studying. In this study, laboratory anxiety scale has been developed for students who are taking physics, chemistry and science laboratory in department of science and mathematics students. The scale consists of 24 items and there are 5 factors. When the factors have been examined, first factor is named as emotional, second factor is named as success, third factor is named as the usage of materials, fourth factor is named as evaluation and fifth factor is named as usage of chemical substance. The reliability coefficients for factors are changing between .76 and .92. In addition for these, the general reliability coefficient is .89.