Some Cautionary Notes About Employing the Socio-Cultural Environmental Scale in Different Cultural Contexts

Keith B Lucas; Neil Taylor

Some Cautionary Notes About Employing the Socio-Cultural Environmental Scale in Different Cultural Contexts

Keith B Lucas, Neil Taylor

School of Education

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Developed and validated in Nigeria, the Socio-Cultural Environmental Scale (SCES) has been used in numerous studies and in a range of cultural contexts over the past decade. This paper reports the authors' experience when employing two of the five subscales of SCES in the South Pacific, where the results were unexpected. Questions are raised about the validity and reliability of SCES, and researchers are cautioned about using the instrument uncritically.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	37-43
Journal	Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia
Volume	21
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 1998

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Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy
Higher Education
Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education

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Some Cautionary Notes About Employing the Socio-Cultural Environmental Scale in Different Cultural Contexts

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