Abstract
The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable scale to measure middle school students’ attitude towards Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge lesson. The study has been applied to 531 7th grade students. During developing this scale, the literature has been scanned, expert opinions have been obtained, accordingly an item pool has been composed and factor analysis has been performed. The KMO value of the scale has been calculated as .914 and the Bartlett test value 4.514 and it has been determined that chi square value is significant. At the end of the analysis 5 factors named “liking” (α=.83), “benefit” (α=.67), “interest” (α=.77), “will” (α=.72) and “trust” (α=.63) have been defined. Total variance that the scale defines is 52.04 percent and the factor loads of the items varies between .49 to .8. The scale is composed of total 27 items. According to the results of the analysis, it has been determined that the scale is a valid and reliable instrument to measure the students’ attitude towards Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge lesson.