Epistemik İnanç Ölçeği: Türkçeye Uyarlama, Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

Year 2016, Volume: 17 Issue: 3, 767 - 783, 01.08.2016

Erkan Dinç Yusuf İnel Servet Üztemur

Abstract

Bu araştırmanın amacı, Schraw, Bendixen, ve Dunkle 2002 , tarafından geliştirilen epistemik inanç ölçeğinin Türkçeye uyarlama, güvenirlik ve geçerlik çalışmasını yapmaktır. Genel tarama modellerinden kesitsel tarama modeline göre tasarlanan araştırmanın çalışma grubunu 2015-2016 öğretim yılı güz döneminde Uşak ve Dumlupınar Üniversitelerinin Eğitim Fakültelerinde öğrenim gören toplam 530 öğretmen adayı oluşturmuştur. Ölçeğin yapı geçerliliğinin tespit edilmesi için önce açımlayıcı sonra da doğrulayıcı faktör analizi yapılmıştır. Orijinal halinde "uzman otoritesi", "kesin bilgi", "hızlı öğrenme", "basit bilgi" ve "doğuştan yetenek" boyutlarından ve 28 maddeden oluşan ölçeğin, yapılan açımlayıcı faktör analizi sonucunda "bilgiye erişim ve edinme süreci", "kesin bilgi", "doğuştan yetenek" ve "basit bilgi" şeklinde 4 boyuttan ve 15 maddeden oluştuğu tespit edilmiştir. Bu haliyle ölçeğin, toplam varyansın % 52,22 sini açıkladığı ve epistemolojik inançların çok boyutlu yapısını ortaya koyduğu tespit edilmiştir. Ölçeğin güvenirliği için Cronbach’s alpha değeri hesaplanarak ,78 bulunmuştur. Ölçeğin Türkçe sürümünün kültürel uyum düzeyini belirlemek için yapılan doğrulayıcı faktör analizi sonucunda ise ölçeğin uyumlu olduğu görülmüştür. Son haliyle, ölçeğin geçerli ve güvenilir olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.

Keywords

Epistemik inanç ölçeği, Türkçeye uyarlama çalışması, geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışması

Epistemic Belief Inventory: Its Adaptation Into Turkish and The Testing of its Validity and Reliability

Abstract

This study aims to adapt the Epistemic Belief Inventory developed by Schraw, Bendixen, and Dunkle 2002 and then to test its validity and reliability. Designed as a crosssectional survey, the current study employs 530 undergraduate students attending the education faculties of Usak and Dumlupınar universities in 2015-2016 academic year. In order to test the inventory’s structural validity, an exploratory factor analysis was carried out. The original structure of the scale consisted of 28 items and four dimensions which are called as "expert authority", "certain knowledge", "rapid learning", "simple knowledge", and "innate ability". After the application of exploratory factor analysis, the structure of the scale has came out as 15 items in four dimensions, which follow as "the access to knowledge and obtaining it", "certain knowledge", "innate ability", and "simple knowledge". It was found out that the adapted version of the Inventory explains 52,22% of the total variance. It also suits to investigate the multi-dimensional complexity of epistemological beliefs. In order to test the inventory’s reliability, its Cronbach’s Alpha score was calculted and found as ,78. The confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the inventory could be used in the Turkish context. As a result, the findings indicate that the final version of the inventory is a valid and reliable tool to measure peoples’ epistemological beliefs

Keywords

Epistemic beliefs’ inventory, Turkish adaptation study, Testing of validty and relaibility

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