TURKISH LANGUAGE COURSE CURRICULUM ASSESSMENT SCALE VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY STUDY

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The basic aim of the study is to devise a measurement scale on the Turkish Language Course Curriculum Assessment. A scale was developed, in line with this aim, taking the curriculum development and evaluation resources into account. The first scale prepared for the pilot study was made up of 47 items of 5-Likert type. The study was conducted with three different working groups within the scope of reliability and validity studies. In the first stage, in the exploratory factor analysis of the scale, 222 classroom teachers working in Adana, Mersin, Şanlıurfa, Mardin, Gaziantep, İstanbul, Kayseri and Hatay provinces and in the second stage 186 classroom teachers working in the confirmatory factor analysis process of the scale and in the third stage the scope of the criterion validity The research was conducted with 102 classroom teachers working in Adana and Kayseri. In consequence of the exploratory factor analysis, items with loadings less than.50 or loaded on two factors were deleted and a 22-item structure with five factors was obtained. The subscales of the scale are called “theme, grammar, initial reading and writing, learning outcome, and measurement and evaluation”. This 5-factor structure was tested through confirmatory factory analysis. As a result, it can be stated that “Turkish Course Curriculum Assessment Scale” is a reliable and valid measurement tool.

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Turkish language course curriculum , classroom teacher , scale development , factor analysis

Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

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Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi