There are many techniques but not all are suitable for use in school. As a teacher researcher wanting to investigate the effect of new technology in school, one of the lines of research I followed was to use a questionnaire to ascertain the attitudes of my pupils to computers. There are a number of different ways of measuring attitude, the two methods I found most useful were the Likert and Semantic-Differential scales. A 'Likert' survey is made up of a series of statements which are related to a person's attitude to a single object, in this case using computers in school.
Statements are either favourable or unfavourable towards the object.
I would prefer the teacher to explain things rather than the computer. Each pupil then has to respond to each statement by saying whether they strongly agree, agree, neither agree nor disagree, disagree, strongly disagree. The Semantic-Differential method of measuring attitudes devised by Osgood consists of a concept, in this case using computers in schools, and a set of bipolar scales. The pupil has to indicate the direction and intensity of the association. The response above would mean that the pupil found using computers in school very exciting, quite interesting and useless for girls.