TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Development and Validation of Turkish Version of the Elementary Teachers' Efficacy and Attitudes Towards STEM (ET-STEM) Scale
AU  - Sahin-topalcengiz, Emine
AU  - Yıldırım, Bekir
PY  - 2019
DA  - January
DO  - 10.21891/jeseh.486787
JF  - Journal of Education in Science Environment and Health
JO  - JESEH
PB  - ISRES Publishing
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2149-214X
SP  - 12
EP  - 35
VL  - 5
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - The purpose of this study was to adapt the Elementary Teachers Efficacyand Attitudes towards STEM Survey (ET-STEM scale; Friday Institute forEducational Innovation, 2012) into Turkish and test the validity andreliability of the instrument. ET-STEM was administered to 313 elementaryteachers from different provinces of Turkey. An exploratory and confirmatoryfactor analysis were conducted to examine the structural validity of the scale.According to exploratory factor analysis results, the ET-STEM survey consistsof nine factors. The values of Cronbach's alpha of the factors ranged from0.891 to 0.964, and corrected item-total scale correlation ranged from 0.313 to0.417. After the exploratory factor analysis performed, the ET-STEM wasadministered to 213 elementary school teachers. The results obtained from theconfirmatory factor analyses demonstrated adequate reliability and validity formeasuring the STEM competencies and attitudes of elementary school teachers.
KW  - STEM
KW  - Validate
KW  - Reliable
KW  - Teacher
CR  - Sahin-Topalcengiz, E. & Yildirim, B. (2019). The development and validation of Turkish version of the elementary teachers' efficacy and attitudes towards STEM (ET-STEM) scale. Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health (JESEH), 5(1), 12-35. DOI:10.21891/jeseh.486787
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21891/jeseh.486787
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/608414
ER  -