O presente artigo refere-se à adaptação, aplicação e validação da escala de atitudes em relação à Matemática de AIKEN (AIKEN, 1961; 1963, AIKEN e DREGER, 1961). Os sujeitos foram 2007 alunos (incluindo estudantes da 3ª do primeiro grau até a terceira série do segundo grau) de quatro escolas públicas urbanas. Além da escala de atitudes, foi construído um questionário para atender os propósitos do estudo das atitudes (BRITO, 1996). As variáveis consideradas para análise foram os vinte itens da escala e o método estatístico usado foi a análise fatorial.
This paper deals with the process of adaptation, aplication and validation of the AIKEN's attitudes toward Mathematics sacel (AIKEN, 1961; 1963; AIKEN e DREGER, 1961). The subjects were 2007 students (grades 3 to 8 and second grade) attending four public urban schools. A questionnaire, developed to attend the objectives of the wider research about attitudes (BRITO, 1996) was also developed. The scale presents 20 itens and those were considered the variables subitted to statistical analysis (p<050). The results showed consistent relations between itens (alpha=9494; r=080). The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure presented a value = 0.97200 and also was applied the Principal-components Analysis (PCA) and two non-related and independent factors were been extracted. The ANOVA was also used and the mean obtained was M=52,514. Students that obtained a value superior were considered those with positive attitudes. The results lead us to conclude that AIKEN'scale is adequate to measure student's attitudes toward Mathematics.
