摘要：Social media can be used for educational purposes: people help the others in their homeworkand exchange ideas, are informed about their grades and lecture notes. Facebook is one of thesocial media tools too. The aim of this study is to develop a likert-type scale, namely socialstudies education with Facebook (SSEF), about the attitudes of teachers towards the use ofFacebook in education.The study was designed as an eclectic research and employed bothqualitative and quantitative data. The participants of the study were 202 classroom teachers.To develop the scale item analysis, confirmatory and explanatory factor analysis were used,and the Cronbach's Alphacoefficient was calculated. It was found that the SSEF is consisted ofseven dimensions (cultural inheritance, our country and the world, occupations andproduction, science and society, social responsibility and citizenship, general items, evaluativeitems) and 37 items. The overall Cronbach's Alpha coefficient was found to be .98, indicatingthat the scale had higher levels of reliability. On the other hand, at the end of theimplementation of the scale the findings obtained showed that the variables of gender, age,educational level, professional experience did not have significant effects on the dimensionson the scale. However, the variable of professional experience significantly affected the scoresfor the dimensions of our country and the world, occupations and production, socialresponsibility and citizenship, general items and evaluative items. More specifically, thoseclassroom teachers with 1-5 yearsand 21+ years of professional experience had higher scoresin the dimensions mentioned above.
关键词：Development of scale; social studies education; social media; facebook; teacher;attitude scales
