Parental Participation According to Students’ Perspective at High School: Adaptation of a Scale

The aim of this study is to adapt ―High School and Family Partnerships Students Survey‖, developed by Epstein, Connors and Salinas (1993), into Turkish. The sample group of the research consists of 285 students who are studying in high schools in Kastamonu. The structure of the original scale with 19 factors was converted to a structure with 8 factors after the discussions with the researcher developed the original scale. However, the analysis which is about if the data is suitable for confirmative factor analysis showed conformity of model-data, so exploratory factor analysis was not applied. The result of confirmatory factor analysis are following: the rate of χ2/sd for student scale was 1.61, RMSEA 0.047, SRMR 0.072, CFI 0.80, GFI 0.62. When the fit indexes of model-data were examined entirely, it was observed that the rates of χ2/sd, RMSEA, and SRMR were suitable to general rules of these indexes cut off levels, whereas the rates of CFI and GFI were under the cut off levels. Although the scores of CFI and GFI are low, the other indexes’, especially the scores of χ2/sd, RMSEA, and SRMR showing a good fit gives information about the goodness of the scale validity. The Cronbach Alpha Coefficient used to determine the reliability of the scale was found as 0.84. It is stated that the scales which are adapted based on the obtained results of the research can be used in Turkey by researchers and schools.