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Basic Process Skills Scale of towards Pre-School Students: A Scale Development Study
Abstract
The aim of this study is to develop “The Scale for Basic Process Skills of Pre-School Students” to
measure basic process skills of pre-school students. The scale was designed to cover the skills of observation,
classification, inference, measurement and prediction. Each skill was analyzed through four items and therefore, the
scale consisted of twenty items. Based on the feedback provided by the experts, the scale was finalized. The scale
was administered to pre-school students who were three-, four- and five-years old (N=228) from five different
schools in a city of Western Turkey. The participants were selected through cluster sampling. The item analyses were
carried out through computer software. For each item, the level of difficulty and the index of discrimination were
identified. Its reliability coefficient was found to be (KR–20) 0.74 and its item difficulty was found to be 0.69. The
discriminatory analysis of the upper and lower 27% groups’ scores showed that all items had a significant
discriminatory power (p < .01). Based on these findings, it is thought that the scale developed is an appropriate tool to
measure basic process skills of pre-school students.
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Publication Date
March 1, 2017
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March 1, 2017
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Year 2017 Volume: 10 Number: 1