期刊名称：International Journal of Social Sciences and Education
印刷版ISSN：2227-393X
电子版ISSN：2223-4934
出版年度：2016
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：81
出版社：Federal College of Education
摘要：Teachers usually begin teaching in their twenties and continue to work until their sixties in Turkey. During these forty years of teaching, their knowledge and competences fade day by day and are lost over time. The Ministry of National Education organizes in-service training programs in order to make up for this problem. One of the factors that affects benefiting from these programs is related to teacher attitudes towards in- service training. This study has developed a valid and reliable attitude scale, in which it is acknowledged that attitude has cognitive, emotional and behavioral factors, and a test plan has been designed considering negative and positive attitude potentials. A group of teachers was asked to write an essay that explained their thoughts related to in-service training and the sentences that pointed to their attitudes were identified. At first, 60 items were written, but it was reduced to forty-three items based on expert opinions. Then the Likert type scale was applied to 176 teachers (101 males and 75 females) by organizing test groups. According to results of analysis, a total of 30 items were selected that included 5 positive and 5 negative items for each component. According to exploratory factor analysis carried on the selected items, the scale explained 53.5% of the variance in total points and had a factor loading value of .47 and .85 (median= .76) between the items. Item-total correlation values were found to be between .48 and .85 (median= .75). Cronbach Alpha and Split Half reliability values were calculated as .97. Thirty items designed previously were applied to 288 teachers (168 males and 120 females) via internet and the confirmatory factor analysis was defined. When the related indexes were examined, it was observed that the scores obtained from the scale fit a one-factor structure.
关键词：attitude; in-service training; scale development
