مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Adaptation of Early Teacher Identity Measure into Turkish

Abstract :

Identifying teacher education programme students’ pre-service teacher identities may guide the explanations on teacher development, and investigating early teacher identity can reveal important implications vital for classroom practice in teacher education institutions. Therefore, a Turkish scale to measure pre-service teacher identity is needed. The aim of this study was to adapt Early Teacher Identity Measure (ETIM) by Friesen and Besley (2013) into Turkish and to investigate this scale’s psychometric properties. The sample of the study consisted of 449 students at teacher education programmes at Gaziantep Faculty of Education. After completing all necessary translation and linguistic equivalence processes, confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses were conducted in order to investigate ETIM’s psychometric properties. The other adaptation analyses included the split-half reliability coefficient and the test-retest reliability of the scale, item discrimination analysis calculated through a comparison between the top and bottom 27% groups, and criterion validity analysis. All these analyses revealed that the adapted version of ETIM meets all the requirements of an adapted scale in another culture, and the total score can be used as ‘ETIM score’.