TY  - JOUR
T1  - Adaptation of scale “Working Like Scientists” (WLS) A Turkish-language version: validation and reliability
AU  - Taşçı, Güntay
AU  - Looss, Maike
AU  - Yurdugül, Halil
AU  - Ruppell, Dagmar Hilfert
AU  - Sülün, Ali
AU  - Hinrichs, Dagmar
AU  - Aydoğdu, Sedat
AU  - Klingenberg, Konstantin
AU  - Taş, Fehime Şeyma
PY  - 2016
DA  - April
Y2  - 2016
DO  - 10.17275/per.16.03.3.1
JF  - Participatory Educational Research
JO  - PER
PB  - Özgen KORKMAZ
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2148-6123
SP  - 54
EP  - 65
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - Theaim of this study was to validate an instrument implemented by Höner et al.(2010) called “Working Like Scientists”, which was designed according to Germanculture. The translation of the items from German to Turkish and back to Germanagain was performed by Turkish and German working groups in an iterativeprocess, eliminating incomprehensibilities and misfits of specific words. In afirst step, the Turkish and German questionnaires were completed in a week by atotal of 44 Turkish prospective teachers. So in this way, the data ofstatistical evidence of equivalence in both languages were collected (r=0. 74;p=0. 00). To establish the factorial construct for the Turkish instrument, thedata set obtained from 304 Turkish prospective teachers was analysed by the CFAusing a Lisrel 8.8 program. To prove the evidence of discriminant andconvergent validity of the established model of the study, AVE (averagevariance extracted) values and the square roots of AVE value were calculated.In addition, the scale’s prediction status of epistemological beliefs as ahigher construct was examined by the secondary-level CFA. Furthermore, theevidence for the scale’s reliability was examined by total item correlations(> .30); internal consistency (Cronbach’s Alpha: between 0.694 and 0.805),and construct reliability (McDonald´s Omega: between 0.694 and 0.806), andlater the suitable values for both sub-dimensions and the whole scale.
KW  - scientific epistemological beliefs
KW  - prospective teacher
KW  - scale adaptation
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.17275/per.16.03.3.1
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/778134
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