Adaptation of Teachers' Self-Efficacy towards Teaching Thinking Skills Scale into English

Autor/inn/en	Dilekli, Yalçin; Tezci, Erdogan
Titel	Adaptation of Teachers' Self-Efficacy towards Teaching Thinking Skills Scale into English
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Training Studies, 6 (2018) 11, S.260-270 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2324-805X
Schlagwörter	Thinking Skills; Teaching Methods; Self Efficacy; Factor Analysis; Construct Validity; Correlation; Turkish; Measures (Individuals); Academic Achievement; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Language Teachers; Preservice Teachers; Foreign Countries; Translation; Specialists; Item Analysis; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Denkfähigkeit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Faktorenanalyse; Korrelation; Türkisch; Messdaten; Schulleistung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Ausland; Itemanalyse; Türkei
Abstract	Teaching thinking skills is core of the curriculum in many cultures. Although curricula have mutual points, the results were different from each other. Having different results of teaching thinking curriculums applied in different countries indicates importance of personal differences of teachers. Defining level of teacher's self-efficacy makes a contribution to determining success level of curriculum. Developing a global scale contributes both researchers and practitioner while teaching thinking. The aim of this study is to adapt Teachers' Self-efficacy towards Teaching Thinking Skills Scale (TSTS), developed in Turkish, into English. The scale consists of 20 items. Each item has 5 point Likert type. It has 3 factors as Design, Practice and Academic Competence. For this purpose, firstly linguistic equivalence was analyzed. For linguistic equivalence, both versions of the scale were applied to 28 candidate teachers of English with 20 day intervals. In the second step, Confirmatory Factor Analyses was administrated to data taken from 144 native English teachers. After the analysis, good level fitting indices were found. Cronbach Alpha coefficient value is .94. Construct validity (Convergence and Discriminating validity) study on correlations between sub-dimensions and average explained variance value has good sufficient level. Scale items were found discriminating. Results showed that English version of the scale was statistically valid and reliable. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01