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William Shakespeare, Our Contemporary. Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes on William Shakespeare and his Work

The aim of this study was to create and validate a questionnaire and to establish differences in knowledge and attitudes on William Shakespeare among the students on three faculties at the University of Split, Croatia. The study was conducted on a sample of 163 students from three faculties at the University of Split (The Faculty of Science, The Faculty of Humanities and Social Science and The Faculty of Kinesiology). Students were divided in three groups according to the study they attend. The sampled variables consisted of 22 questions and 13 students' attitudes on William Shakespeare. Frequencies were calculated, as well as the percentage of correct answers. Test-retest overlap was applied in establishing the reliability. Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA test with multiple comparisons of mean ranks was applied in order to establish differences between the groups. Obtained results clearly suggest that newly created questionnaire is reliable (test-retest overlap 78.9%) and pragmatically valid. There are statistically significant differences in some knowledge and attitudes between the groups. This study confirmed the thesis suggesting that no matter the differences in some knowledge and attitudes among the students of different study group, the importance of reading and teaching on William Shakespeare, today, still seems to be present and important.

Attitudes; knowledge; literature; reading; Shakespeare; students

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