A Test Development Study for “the Determination of Phonological Awareness Levels” of Preschool Teachers

Abstract

This study includes the test development study for determining the phonological awareness, knowledge, and skill levels of preschool teachers. The determination of the knowledge levels of preschool teachers, who play a role in the acquisition of phonological awareness skills, which affect the reading success of children at later stages, by children, on this matter increases the efficiency of the phonological awareness education that will be provided to children. Within this purpose, 31 items that had been prepared for the testing tool after a literature review were applied to 185 preschool teachers. Questions were prepared regarding the definition and importance of phonological awareness, the overall and development of phonological awareness skills, supporting phonological awareness and its implementation, evaluation of phonological awareness skills, syllable awareness skill, word awareness skill, and phonemic awareness skill. As a result of the application, the scale items were reduced to 20 items and finalized according to the item difficulty index, item discrimination index, item standard deviations, item-total correlations, and alpha reliability coefficients.

Keywords

• early literacy
• special education
• phonological awareness

Okul Öncesi Öğretmenlerinin “Sesbilgisel Farkındalık Düzeylerini Belirleme Testi” Geliştirme Çalışması

Öz

Bu çalışma okul öncesi öğretmenlerin sesbilgisel farkındalık bilgi ve becerileri düzeylerini belirlemeye yönelik test geliştirme çalışmasını içermektedir. Akademik yaşamları boyunca çocukların okuma başarılarını etkileyen sesbilgisel farkındalık becerilerinin çocuklara kazandırılmasında görev yapan okul öncesi öğretmenlerin bu konuda hakkındaki düzeylerinin belirlenmesi çocuklara verilecek olan sesbilgisel farkındalık eğitiminin verimliliğini arttırmaktadır. Bu amaç kapsamında alan yazın taraması yapıldıktan sonra test aracı için hazırlanan 31 madde 185 okul öncesi öğretmene uygulanmıştır. Sesbilgisel farkındalığın tanımına ve önemine, sesbilgisel farkındalık becerilerinin gelişimlerine, sesbilgisel farkındalık becerilerinin desteklenmesine ve uygulama sürecine, sesbilgisel farkındalık becerilerinin değerlendirilmesine, uyak farkındalığı becerisine, hece farkındalığı becerisine, kelime farkındalığı becerisine ve sesbirimsel farkındalık becerisine yönelik soru maddeleri hazırlanmıştır. Uygulama sonucunda madde güçlük indisi, madde ayırt edicilik indisi, madde standart sapmaları, madde toplam korelasyonları ve alfa güvenlik katsayılarına göre ölçek maddesi 20 maddeye düşmüş ve son halini almıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• özel eğitim
• erken okuryazarlık
• sesbilgisel farkındalık

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