Attitude is the bridge between knowledge and practice. Thus assessment of attitude becomes an integral part of student evaluation. Nursing is such a profession where nurses deal with the patients who are in need. So attitude of the nurses really matters to the quality of care they provide. Not only helping the student nurses to develop a healthy attitude, but assessing the same is also an important role of an educator. Unless assessed, we will not know if the students have developed appropriate attitude to enhance their profession. The assessment of attitude is essentially by observation of verbal and nonverbal behavior of the student and is likely to be very subjective. However, development of various attitude scales has reduced its subjectivity. types- There are two attitude scales commonly used to assess the attitude of individuals: Likert scale and semantic differential scale. Likert scale was named after a psychologist Rensis Likert, who developed it in 1932 as a psychological concept measurement scale. Likert scale is the most commonly used scaling technique. It was developed to measure the attitudes, values and feelings of people. Primarily, the original version of this scale was developed with a five-point scale (strongly agree, agree, uncertain, disagree and strongly disagree) containing a mixture of positive and negative declarative statements regarding measuring variables. However, one can even observe the Likert scale now with four point (strongly agree, moderately agree, disagree and uncertain) to seven point (very strongly agree, strongly agree, agree, uncertain, disagree, strongly disagree and very strongly disagree) scaling categories. Semantic differential scale measures individual's attitude toward objects, events or another individual. Respondents describe their feelings on scales with semantic labels. When bipolar adjectives are used at the end points of the scales, these are termed semantic differential scales. This scale consists of a series of contrasting adjective pairs (good- bad, beneficial- harmful) listed on opposite ends of the bipolar scale. The individual is given instruction to quickly tick on or in between the opposite adjective pairs. Scoring is done thereafter by adding the construct on each statement (one to seven).

2. Introduction
 Attitude is the bridge between knowledge and
practice. Thus assessment of attitude becomes an
integral part of student evaluation.
 Nursing is such a profession where nurses deal with
the patients who are in need. So attitude of the nurses
really matters to the quality of care they provide.
 Not only helping the student nurses to develop a
healthy attitude, but assessing the same is also an
important role of an educator. Unless assessed, we
will not know if the students have developed
appropriate attitude to enhance their profession.
 The assessment of attitude is essentially by
observation of verbal and nonverbal behavior of the
student and is likely to be very subjective. However,
development of various attitude scales has reduced its
subjectivity.

3. TYPES OF ATTITUDE SCALES
 There are two attitude scales commonly used
to assess the attitude of individuals:
 Likert scale and semantic differential scale.

4. Likert Scale
 Likert scale was named after a psychologist Rensis Likert, who
developed it in 1932 as a psychological concept measurement
scale.
 Likert scale is the most commonly used scaling technique.
 It was developed to measure the attitudes, values and
feelings of people.
 Primarily, the original version of this scale was developed with a
five-point scale (strongly agree, agree, uncertain, disagree and
strongly disagree) containing a mixture of positive and negative
declarative statements regarding measuring variables.
 However, one can even observe the Likert scale now with four
point (strongly agree, moderately agree, disagree and
uncertain) to seven point (very strongly agree, strongly agree,
agree, uncertain, disagree, strongly disagree and very strongly
disagree) scaling categories.

5. DEFINITIONS OF A LIKERT
SCALE
 Likert scale is a composite measure of
attitudes that involve summation of scores on
set of items (statements) to which respondents
are asked to indicate their degree of
agreement or disagreement.

8. Semantic differential Scale

9. Semantic Differential Scale
 Semantic differential scale measures individual's
attitude toward objects, events or another individual.
 Respondents describe their feelings on scales with
semantic labels.
 When bipolar adjectives are used at the end points of
the scales, these are termed semantic differential
scales.
 This scale consists of a series of contrasting adjective
pairs (good- bad, beneficial- harmful) listed on
opposite ends of the bipolar scale.
 The individual is given instruction to quickly tick on or
in between the opposite adjective pairs.
 Scoring is done thereafter by adding the construct on
each statement (one to seven).

11. Advantages of a semantic
differential scale
 A convenient method to assess beliefs,
attitudes and values in quantitative form.
 Easy to administer.
 Provides reasonable, valid and reliable
quantitative data.

12. Disadvantages of a semantic
differential scale
 It is difficult to select the relevant concepts that
are appropriate for any given investigations
 It is time consuming, if anyone is not able to
find the appropriate adjective pairs.