Research Article

School Climate Index Adaptation to Turkish: Reliability and Validity Study

Volume: 7 Number: 2 August 9, 2017
  • Mustafa Özdere
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School Climate Index Adaptation to Turkish: Reliability and Validity Study

Abstract

The school climate is defined as the personality of a school, which is considered important for effectiveness, efficiency and safety of a school. Studies on school climate were usually conducted by referring to students' opinions, and the perception of the the teachers on school climate was not studied as much. Therefore, it seems important that the adaptation of a school climate scale to Turkic to be used in studies aiming to determine the perceptions of teachers who are working in very different types of high schools. The purpose of this study is to adapt the School Climate Scale developed by Hoy, Smith, & Sweetland (2002), which is widely accepted in the literature, to Turkish. The research was conducted with the participation of 237 teachers working in 12 high schools in Niğde in the spring term of 2015. According to the confirmatory factor analysis results, the Turkish form of scale consists of 27 items and four sub-dimensions (colleague leadership, professional teacher behavior, achievement pressure and institutional vulnerability).  The scale had also evidence for its convergent and discriminant validity. The internal consistency coefficients obtained for all of the scale and its sub-dimensions are excellent. As a result, it can be said that accordingly of the EFA and CFA, the scale is a dependable and legitimate estimation apparatus.

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Primary Language

Turkish

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Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Mustafa Özdere This is me
NİĞDE ÖMER HALİSDEMİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Türkiye

Publication Date

August 9, 2017

Submission Date

August 9, 2017

Acceptance Date

July 16, 2017

Published in Issue

Year 2017 Volume: 7 Number: 2

APA
Özdere, M. (2017). Okul İklim Ölçeğinin Türkçeye Uyarlanmasi: Güvenirlik ve Geçerlilik Çalişmasi. Anadolu Journal of Educational Sciences International, 7(2), 203-233. https://doi.org/10.18039/ajesi.333723
AMA
1.Özdere M. Okul İklim Ölçeğinin Türkçeye Uyarlanmasi: Güvenirlik ve Geçerlilik Çalişmasi. AJESI. 2017;7(2):203-233. doi:10.18039/ajesi.333723
Chicago
Özdere, Mustafa. 2017. “Okul İklim Ölçeğinin Türkçeye Uyarlanmasi: Güvenirlik Ve Geçerlilik Çalişmasi”. Anadolu Journal of Educational Sciences International 7 (2): 203-33. https://doi.org/10.18039/ajesi.333723.
EndNote
Özdere M (August 1, 2017) Okul İklim Ölçeğinin Türkçeye Uyarlanmasi: Güvenirlik ve Geçerlilik Çalişmasi. Anadolu Journal of Educational Sciences International 7 2 203–233.
IEEE
[1]M. Özdere, “Okul İklim Ölçeğinin Türkçeye Uyarlanmasi: Güvenirlik ve Geçerlilik Çalişmasi”, AJESI, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 203–233, Aug. 2017, doi: 10.18039/ajesi.333723.
ISNAD
Özdere, Mustafa. “Okul İklim Ölçeğinin Türkçeye Uyarlanmasi: Güvenirlik Ve Geçerlilik Çalişmasi”. Anadolu Journal of Educational Sciences International 7/2 (August 1, 2017): 203-233. https://doi.org/10.18039/ajesi.333723.
JAMA
1.Özdere M. Okul İklim Ölçeğinin Türkçeye Uyarlanmasi: Güvenirlik ve Geçerlilik Çalişmasi. AJESI. 2017;7:203–233.
MLA
Özdere, Mustafa. “Okul İklim Ölçeğinin Türkçeye Uyarlanmasi: Güvenirlik Ve Geçerlilik Çalişmasi”. Anadolu Journal of Educational Sciences International, vol. 7, no. 2, Aug. 2017, pp. 203-3, doi:10.18039/ajesi.333723.
Vancouver
1.Mustafa Özdere. Okul İklim Ölçeğinin Türkçeye Uyarlanmasi: Güvenirlik ve Geçerlilik Çalişmasi. AJESI. 2017 Aug. 1;7(2):203-3. doi:10.18039/ajesi.333723

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