Research article | Open Access
TAY Journal 2022, Vol. 6(2) 252-270
pp. 252 - 270 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.29329/tayjournal.2022.510.05
Publish Date: December 30, 2022 | Single/Total View: 51/396 | Single/Total Download: 62/707
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to develop a measurement tool to measure the attitudes of teacher candidates towards the core values education. For this purpose, an item pool was created by reviewing the related literature and receiving support from area experts. The 5-Point Likert scale has been created with the obtained data from 458 teacher candidates who continue their education in different classes and branches at the faculty of education and the faculty of sports sciences in a state university from Ankara in the spring term of the academic year 2020/21. Conducted at the measurement development stage, the results of the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) have shown that the scale structure unites under 5 factors that are 'acquisition of core values,' 'interest in core values,' 'core values for individuals,' 'necessity of core values' and 'core values in terms of course and student' while the structure consists 34 items and factor loadings are varying between .40 and .88. The correlation analysis of the scale has indicated that the correlation coefficients of the items in the scale factors are higher than .20. Moreover, a positive correlation among the factors of the scale was found. Besides, the developed scale is explained 55.89% of the total variance and Cronbach's Alpha value for the whole scale is .93. The present study shows that the developed measurement tool has a valid and reliable structure that might be utilized to measure the attitudes of teacher candidates towards the core values education.
Keywords: Teacher candidates, core values, attitude, scale development, Teacher candidates, core values, attitude, scale development
APA 7th edition
KILCAN, B., ERBAS, S., YAYLACI-KILIC, U.Y.Z., PALAZ, T., & KILCAN, T. (2022). Developing an Attitude Scale for Root Values Education. TAY Journal, 6(2), 252-270. https://doi.org/10.29329/tayjournal.2022.510.05
Harvard
KILCAN, B., ERBAS, S., YAYLACI-KILIC, U., PALAZ, T. and KILCAN, T. (2022). Developing an Attitude Scale for Root Values Education. TAY Journal, 6(2), pp. 252-270.
Chicago 16th edition
KILCAN, Bahadir, Sadettin ERBAS, Umit YEL Zeynep YAYLACI-KILIC, Tevfik PALAZ and Tugba KILCAN (2022). "Developing an Attitude Scale for Root Values Education". TAY Journal 6 (2):252-270. https://doi.org/10.29329/tayjournal.2022.510.05