Instruction Scale Based on ARCS Motivation Model: The Study of Validity And Reliability

It is a matter of interest whether teachers maintain teaching activities that increases student motivation. The aim of this research is to develop an Instruction Scale Based on ARCS Motivation Model for analysing students’ perception about whether classroom teachers carry on teaching activities according to ARCS Motivation Model or not. The workgroup of the study consists of 445 fourth grade students,213 of them are male and 232 of them are female, studying in the city center of Diyarbakır. In order to test that the scale is coherent with determined factor structure, DFA has been done. As a result, a four-dimensioned (attention, relevance, confidence, satisfaction) and 22-item scale has been developed for learning whether classroom teachers carry on teaching activities according to ARCS Motivation Model or not. As a result of DFA for validity, fictionalised consruction has been verified and that there is a perfect coherence betwen items and sub-dimensions has been seen. The results of reliablitiy has shown that the scale is a reliable assesment ınstrument and has the sufficient psychometry features .