YAVUZ GÜLER, Çiğdem Üsküdar Üniversitesi - İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi - Psikoloji Bölümü, Turkey

Development of the Scale of Perception of Competence on Working with Parents for Preservice Teachers: A Validity and Reliability Study

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The aim of the study is to develop a scale to determine the perception of competence of preservice teachers toward family involvement and to conduct validity and reliability analyses. The trial scale composed of 56 items, formed with this aim applied to 298 teacher candidates. The scale consisted from three factors named “Competences related personal area” -8 items”, “Competences related conceptual area”-6 items”, “Competences related practical area-7 items” and totally 21 items after the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. These three factors explains 48.614 of the total variance. The results of Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the model had enough goodness of fit and consequently shows the scale had structural validity (χ²=666.23; sd=186, p=.01; χ²/sd=3,58; SRMR= 0.086; RMSEA=0.093; CFI=0.83; IFI=0.83). The internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach Alpha) of “The scale of perception of competence related working with parents” was .90. As a conclusion, the scale has enough psychometric features and is a valid and reliable scale could be used to examine the perception of competence related working with parents.

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Working with parents , preservice teachers , perception of competence , scale development

Dicle University Journal Of Ziya Gökalp Faculty Of Education

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