Research Article
Construct Validity of Assessing Interest in STEM Content Scale
Table 2
The assumptions in statistics of the four factors.
| Factor | x̅ | SD | Skewness | Kurtosis |
| Science | S1 | 3.960 | 1.564 | 0.106 | −0.415 | S2 | 4.246 | 1.504 | 0.070 | −0.564 | S3 | 3.661 | 1.577 | 0.250 | −0.501 | S4 | 4.317 | 1.582 | -0.219 | −0.554 | S5 | 4.244 | 1.617 | -0.161 | −0.666 |
| Mathematics | M1 | 3.829 | 1.652 | 0.000 | −0.736 | M2 | 3.663 | 1.516 | 0.066 | −0.522 | M3 | 3.932 | 1.604 | 0.110 | −0.589 | M4 | 3.958 | 1.611 | −0.162 | −0.516 | M5 | 3.903 | 1.669 | −0.021 | −0.688 |
| Laboratorial skills | L1 | 4.981 | 1.609 | −0.573 | −0.364 | L2 | 4.608 | 1.521 | −0.381 | −0.303 | L3 | 5.005 | 1.620 | −0.561 | −0.431 | L4 | 4.885 | 1.666 | −0.451 | −0.547 | L5 | 4.891 | 1.694 | −0.510 | −0.529 |
| Technology | T1 | 3.143 | 1.742 | 0.506 | −0.570 | T2 | 3.384 | 1.551 | 0.414 | −0.320 | T3 | 4.588 | 1.560 | −0.476 | −0.162 | T4 | 3.159 | 1.590 | 0.386 | −0.391 | T5 | 3.125 | 1.603 | 0.360 | −0.520 |
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