Research Article

The adaptation of the pedagogical knowledge and skills survey into Turkish: Validity and reliability study

Volume: 8 Number: 1 January 31, 2019
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The adaptation of the pedagogical knowledge and skills survey into Turkish: Validity and reliability study

Abstract

This research aims to adapt the Pedagogical Knowledge and Skills in Teaching (PKST) survey developed by Wong, Chong, Choy and Lim (2012) to Turkish. The participants of the study are 830 4th year students of education faculty studying at two different public universities. Explanatory Factor Analysis (EFA) was conducted with total 205 pre-service teachers in which 110 (53. 6%) of female and 95 (46,4 %) of male. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was also carried out with total 625 preservice teachers in which 330 (52. 8 %) of them are female, 295 (47. 2 %) of them are male. Back translation was used to ensure language validity. EFA and CFA were conducted for the construct validity and to ensure psychometric characteristics of measurement tool. EFA show that survey has six factors and 37 items. Coefficient was 0.94 for the survey whereas it ranged between 0.70 and 0.88 for its factors. The analyses and findings show that the survey is a valid and reliable data collection tool.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Studies on Education

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

January 31, 2019

Submission Date

September 13, 2018

Acceptance Date

January 5, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 8 Number: 1

APA
Gökçek, T., & Yılmaz, A. (2019). The adaptation of the pedagogical knowledge and skills survey into Turkish: Validity and reliability study. Turkish Journal of Education, 8(1), 52-70. https://doi.org/10.19128/turje.459678

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