THE ADAPTATION STUDY OF MAGGIE MCVAY LYNCH LEARNING STYLE INVENTORY INTO TURKISH

In this study, Maggie McVay Lynch Leaning Style Inventory was analyzed in terms of its linguistic equivalence, validity and reliability in order to adapt the Learning Style Inventory into Turkey conditions. The study was conducted with 668 student (321 girls, 347 boys) from different departments of Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education. The original Inventory has 60 items and it is three-point Likert-style. Content and construct validity studies were done within the validity of the Inventory. For the content validity of the Learning Style Inventory, expert views were taken and construct validity was determined by factor analysis. Within the reliability studies of the Inventory, Cronbach Alpha value and item-total correlations were calculated and split half method was used. Inventoryʹs Cronbach Alpha is .9536 and standardized Cronbach Alpha value is .9542. All of the item-total correlations of the Inventory were distributed over .99. As a result of the analysis, it is decided that Maggie McVay Lynch Learning Style Inventory is a reliable and valid instrument. Besides, the values found in this study showed that the Inventory is suitable for Turkish society.