nef-efmed Necatibey Faculty of Education Electronic Journal of Science and Mathematics Education 1307-6086 Balıkesir Üniversitesi 10.17522/balikesirnef.356142 Mathematics Examination Anxiety Scale for Middle School Students: A Scale Development Study Ortaokul Öğrencileri İçin Matematik Sınavı Kaygısı Ölçeği: Bir Ölçek Geliştirme Çalışması Şan İsmail Akdağ Mustafa 06 30 2017 11 1 128 159 12 03 2016 06 02 2017 Copyright © 2015, Necatibey Eğitim Fakültesi Elektronik Fen ve Matematik Eğitimi Dergisi 2015 Necatibey Eğitim Fakültesi Elektronik Fen ve Matematik Eğitimi Dergisi

The purpose of this study is to develop a scale todetermine middle school students' math test anxiety. For this purpose, thetrial form prepared was presented to experts to receive feedback on thevalidity of the items. In line with the feedback from the experts, the content,structure and appearance validity of the items have been increased. Substancesbelow .80 for content validity were not used in the study. 32-item trial formprepared was applied to 592 students from8 different middle school that enrolled in the 7th grade. The Obtained data wasanalyzed. As a result of the exploratory factor analysis, a structure with 22items and 3 factors, namely "Tension", "Affection" and"Delusion" has been reached. Then, by analyzing the relations betweensubscales of the scale, it was determined that the factors are in a positiveand meaningful relationship with each other. By the analysis it was seen thatsubscales were the dimensions of a structure named Mathematical Test Anxiety. TheConfirmatory factor analysis results of the model, in which the compliancegoodness index scores were high, showed consistency with the exploratory factoranalysis results. The internal consistency coefficient obtained for the wholescale was calculated as .848.

Bu çalışmanın amacı, ortaokul öğrencilerininmatematik test kaygılarının belirlenebilmesi için bir ölçek geliştirmektir. Buamaçla doğrultusunda hazırlanan deneme formu, maddelerin geçerliğine ilişkindönüt alınmak üzere uzmanlara sunulmuştur. Uzmanlardan gelen dönütlerdoğrultusunda maddelerin kapsam, yapı ve görünüş geçerlilerinin artırılmasısağlanmıştır. Kapsam geçerliği için uzmanlardan gelen dönütlerdeki uyuşumyüzdesi .80’in altında kalan maddeler çalışmada kullanılmamıştır. Oluşturulan 32maddelik deneme formu, 8 farklı ortaokulun 7.sınıflarında öğrenim görmekte olan592 öğrenciye uygulanarak, elde edilen veriler analiz edilmiştir. AçımlayıcıFaktör Analizi (AFA) sonucunda “Gerginlik”,“Duyuşsallık” ve “Kuruntu” olmak üzere üç boyutlu ve toplam 22 maddeden oluşanbir yapıya ulaşılmıştır. Ardından ölçeğin alt bileşenleri ile arasındakiilişkiler analiz edilerek ve faktörlerin birbirleriyle olumlu ve anlamlı ilişkiiçinde olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Alt boyutların matematik sınavı kaygısı isimlibir yapının içeriğine uygun olduğu ve bu bileşenlerin bir arada üst yapıyıtanımlamada kullanılabileceği analizler sonucunda teyit edilmiştir. Uyumiyiliği indeks skorlarının oldukça yüksek olan modelin, Doğrulayıcı FaktörAnalizi sonuçları da AFA sonuçlarıyla tutarlılık göstermiştir. Ölçeğin bütünüiçin elde edilen iç tutarlık katsayısı ise .848 olarak hesaplanmıştır.

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