Developing a Scale for the Attitude of Students of some Faculties of Agriculture towards Settlement in Reclaimed Lands

This study aims basically to develop a reliable and valid scale for the attitude of students of faculties of agriculture towards settlement in reclaimed lands. The primary form of this scale contained 4 components, each of them represented by 10 statements. The forty statements were judged by 15 jury specialized in agricultural extension and rural development. Validity results show that the scale has an acceptable level of validity for all the phrases in its initial form.
The empirical phase of the scale is performed on a sample composed of 172 respondents from the students of faculties of agriculture of El-Shatby, Sababasha and Damanhour.
Variety of statistical techniques were applied in data analysis, including Factor analysis, Stepwise, Multiple Linear Regression, Pearsons product moment correlation coefficient, Alpha coefficient of ''cronbach'', and Validity tests.
Major findings of the study can be summarized as follows:
1-    The final form of the scale contains the following four components:
a-     The economic component
b-    The social component
c-     The psychological component
d-    The geographic environmental component
These four components contain 31 statements.
2-    The findings indicate that the social component is the most important components as it explains 0.76 of the variance in the attitude of students of faculties of agriculture towards settlement in reclaimed lands, then the geographical-environmental component (0.12), the economic component (0.9), and the psychological component (0.3).
3-    Measuring the internal consistency revealed that all of the statements were correlated significantly with the total instrument and its components, which confirmed in its validity to compound the scale itself.
4-    The study findings reveal high validity and reliability of the scale, the scale Alpha reliability coefficient of "Cronbach" is 0.79 concerning its four components and 0.8 concerning its 31statements, with validity coefficient 0.89, 0.89 respectively.
5-    Depending upon the validity and reliability results, the scale was considered a reliable and valid instrument to be used to measure attitude of students of faculties of agriculture towards settlement in reclaimed lands.