The Turkish Version of the Perceived School Experiences Scale: The study of Validity and Reliability
Abstract
The aim of this research is to adapt the Perceived
School Experiences Scale (Butcher,
Amorose, Iachini & Ball, 2012)
to Turkish and to examine its psychometric properties. The research was
conducted on total 327 high school students. The validity and reliability of
scale was investigated by test re-test, Cronbach alpha, confirmatory factor
analysis and criterion related validity methods. Perceived School Experiences Scale
and Educational Stress Scale were used for the criterion related validity. Results
confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that 14 items yielded three factor as original form and
that the three-dimensional model was well fit (χ²= 137,11, sd=70, RMSEA=.054,
CFI=.93, GFI=.94, IFI= .94, SRMR=.053 ). Factor loadings ranged from .27 to .75.
Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient was found as .83 for overall
scale, .67 for academic press subscale, .67 for academic motivation subscale and .68 school connectedness subscale. In the concurrent validity
significant relationships were found between the Perceived School Experiences Scale
and Educational Stress Scale (r=
-.47). Corrected
item-total correlations ranged from .34 to .64. Overall results demonstrated
that the Perceived School
Experiences Scale can be named as a valid and reliable instrument that could be
used in the field of education.
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