Determining The Factors Affecting Student Teachers’ Academic Achievement Scale: Development, Reliability And Validity

The purpose of this study, to develop an opinion scale is valid and reliable in order to determine the factors that influence student teachers’ academic achievement. Existing studies on the subject examined and 11 teaching staff have been written ideas in the development stage of the draft scale. Then, the experts consulted for premise items. The scale applied on 351 student teachers. Principle component analysis applied for content and construct validity of the scale, Cronbach’s Alpha formula was used for reliability. The scale finalized according to the analyzes and the Cronbach-alpha internal consistency coefficient was calculated as 0.889. In addition, two sub-scale factors found and the factors that have items factor load values ranged between 0.42 and 0.78.