Scale for Level of Using Basic Scientific Process Skills: Validity and Reliability of Parent Form
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The aim of this study; is to develop scale for level of using basic scientific process skills: Parent Form, aimed at parents’ creating opportunities for their children to use their basic scientific process skills in their daily life experience. The study group, by means of which the data was collected for the validity and reliability of the scale, consisted of 536 parents whose children attended pre-school educational institutions which are subjected to Ministry of National Education in the school year of 2014/2015 in the cities of Ankara, Konya, İzmir, Kırklareli, İstanbul, Sakarya, Bursa, Amasya, Gaziantep and Diyarbakır. It was observed that Cronbach alpha internal consistency reliability co-efficient is α= 0.96 and total articles score correlation values are between the range of 0.52 and 0.71 for a total of 35 articles and 7 sub-dimensions of Parent form: SLUBSPS. After calculating the reliability co-efficient of the scale through internal consistency test split half method, the correlation coefficient between the two halves of the test was found to be 0,86 and reliability coefficient between Spearman Brown two halves test for the whole test was observed as 0,92. As a result of the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) applied to the scale, the factor load of all of the articles in each the sub dimension of the scale was observed high (between the range of 0,53 and 0,86). The findings prove the scale to be a valid and reliable measurement tool developed to determine the parents’ level of using basic scientific process skills.
Anahtar Kelimeler
children in pre-school period,parent,scientific process skills
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