The Adaptation of Distributed Leadership Inventory to Turkish Language, Language Validity & Pre-Psychometric Investigation

Abstract

The aim of this study is to adapt Distributed Leadership Scale (Davis, 2009) that measure teachers’ perception of distributed leadership of their administrators into Turkish language and investigate reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the scale. 268 teachers participated in the study, and firstly the validity of the translation was investigated by translating the scale items; and then, language and semantic validity, content validity, construct validity, test-re-test reliability and internal consistency were investigated. The findings indicated that the scale may be reliable; however, the values of CFA indicated that the Turkish version of the scale may be problematic. Consequently, although the Turkish version of the scale provided enough reliability coefficients, the one-dimensional form of the scale may be assumed as convenient as the Turkish version of the scale did not have enough validity coefficients for a 7-factor construct

Keywords

• Distributed leadership,distributed leadership scale,leadership

Dağıtımcı Liderlik Ölçeği’nin Türkçeye Uyarlanması, Dil Geçerliği ve Ön Psikometrik İncelenmesi

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı, çalışanların yöneticilerinin dağıtımcı liderlik algılarını ölçen Dağıtımcı Liderlik Ölçeği’ni (Davis, 2009) Türk diline uyarlanarak, Türkçe ölçeğin geçerlik ve güvenirliğinin sınanmasıdır. 268 katılımcı üzerinde gerçekleştirilen çalışmada öncelikle, ölçek maddelerinin Türkçeye çevrilerek çeviri geçerliği incelenmiş; ardından dil ve anlam geçerliği, içerik geçerliliği, yapı geçerliği, test-yeniden-test güvenirliği ve iç tutarlıkları araştırılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular bize ölçeğin güvenilir olduğunu düşündürmektedir. Ancak gerçekleştirilen DFA sonucunda elde edilen değerler Türkçe formun geçerliliğini problemli kılmaktadır. Sonuç olarak, DLÖ Türkçe formunun, her ne kadar yeterli güvenirlik katsayıları sağlanmış olsa da, ölçeğin orijinal 7 boyutlu formuna yönelik yeterli geçerlilik değerlerine sahip olmaması sebebiyle, tek boyutlu olarak kullanılması uygun olarak kabul edilebilir

Keywords

• Dağıtımcı liderlik,dağıtımcı liderlik ölçeği,liderlik

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