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Leaders in science education (7) stress the importance of concepts, generalizations, scientific methods, and attitudes. Great stress is placed upon the attitudes and modes of reasoning which lead to the organization and applications of new learnings. In order to identify scientific talent and to direct the learning of science by the talented, teaching and testing must involve a wide range of objectives. While some progress has been made in the measurement of student development of scientific concepts (2, 5, 8) and the learning of critical thinking (1, 6), the objective measurement of attitudes toward science as an academic discipline has been meager.The term "attitude" used in this paper refers to how an individual feels about elementary school science an emotionalized feeling for or against science. A distinction needs to be made between this type of attitude and the term scientific attitude or scientifically minded person who possesses an open-mind, looks at a problem from many sides, and seeks reliable sources for his evidence.

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