Adaptation of Statistics Anxiety Scale to Turkish: Validity and Reliability Study

Autor/inn/en	Durak, Ismail; Karagoz, Yalcin
Titel	Adaptation of Statistics Anxiety Scale to Turkish: Validity and Reliability Study
Quelle	In: International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 8 (2021) 3, S.667-683 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Durak, Ismail) ORCID (Karagoz, Yalcin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2148-7456
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Affective Measures; Statistics; Mathematics Anxiety; Undergraduate Students; Construct Validity; Predictive Validity; Factor Structure; Factor Analysis; Test Reliability; Psychometrics; Test Items; Item Analysis; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Statistik; Faktorenstruktur; Faktorenanalyse; Testreliabilität; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Test content; Testaufgabe; Itemanalyse; Türkei
Abstract	The aim of this study is to adapt the Statistics Anxiety Scale (SAS) developed by Vigil-Colet et al. (2008) to Turkish. This study is expected to fill an important gap in the literature since no valid and reliable specific statistics anxiety scale developed or adapted in Turkish for undergraduate students in the literature is available. The sample consists of a total of 439 university students, 258 women and 181 men, studying at Düzce University. The construct validity of the Turkish form of SAS was examined by EFA and DFA. Also, for the criterion validity, a different statistics anxiety scale whose validity and reliability tested was used. As a result of EFA, a three-dimensional structure was obtained as in the structure of the original scale. According to the CFA results, which is the second analysis for construct validity, all fit index results of the model were at an acceptable level. Thus, the CFA results supported the three-factor structure obtained from EFA findings. As a result of the reliability analysis, the Cronbach's Alpha internal coefficients of the SAS and its subscales and, the Guttman and Spearman-Brown internal consistency coefficients of Split-Half Reliability methods were quite high and above the limit of 0.70. For item discrimination, items have good discrimination by obtaining all values above 0.30 lower limit in the results. When the results of the study are evaluated as a whole, the SAS form adapted to Turkish can be used as a guiding scale to measure the statistics anxiety of undergraduate students. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education. Pamukkale University, Faculty of Education, Kinikli Campus, Denizli 20070, Turkey. e-mail: ijate.editor@gmail.com; Web site: https://ijate.net/index.php/ijate
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01