TY - JOUR TT - The Adaptation of Psychological Scales AU - Deniz, Zülfikar PY - 2007 DA - May DO - 10.1501/Egifak_0000000180 JF - Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences (JFES) JO - JFES PB - Ankara Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1301-3718 SP - 1 EP - 16 VL - 40 IS - 1 KW - Uyarlama KW - psikolojik ölçek KW - geliştirme aşamaları KW - ITC KW - TIMSS-R KW - OECD/PISA N2 - The exchange of knowledge and information is rapidly progressing and the intercultural interaction is gradually developing in these days. The psychological scales developed for a culture can also be used in different ones. Therefore, it must be answered that how appropriate in another culture the scale is?, how strong the psychometrics of scale (reliability and validity are)? and how accurately the scale reflects the psychological properties of new culture?. Adaptation is to translate the scale into another language and to search answers to these questions above. The aim of this study is to depict the adaptation process of psychological measurement scales, the projects of TIMMS, TIMMSR, OECD/PISA, the reason of adaptation instead of developing a measurement scale, International Test Commision (ITC), ITC activities and test adaptation guide UR - https://doi.org/10.1501/Egifak_0000000180 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/509077 ER -