Eğitim Teknolojisi Kuram ve Uygulama

Yazarlar: Ebru KILIÇ ÇAKMAK, F. Gizem Karaoğlan Yılmaz, Ramazan YILMAZ

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DOI:10.17943/etku.47870

Anahtar Kelimeler:Internet-specific epistemological beliefs,Validity,Reliability

Özet: This study aims to adapt Internet-Specific Epistemological Beliefs Scale, developed by Bråten, Strİmsİ & Samuelstuen (2005) based on Hofer & Pintrich’s (1997) model to survey personal individual beliefs and later revised by Strİmsİ & Bråten (2010), into Turkish and to carry out the reliability and validity analyses of the scale. The study was carried out on 463 university students studying in 2013-2014 spring semester. In the adaptation process of the study, first the language equivalence of the scale was analyzed and after it was concluded that the Turkish scale met language equivalence, validity and reliability studies were carried out. With the confirmatory factor analysis done, the structural validity of the adapted scale was analyzed and it was found that the structural validity was consistent with the original scale. Following this step, Cronbach alpha internal coefficient of consistence and corrected item-total correlation were calculated. And using t-test the significance of the differences between item averages of upper and lower 27% groups was analyzed. The results of the analyses show that fit indexes of the adapted scale were acceptable and that the Cronbach alpha coefficients ranged between .85 and .93. Cronbach alpha internal coefficient of consistence for the Turkish version of the scale was found as .81. These results reveal that the scale is a valid and reliable tool in measuring internet-specific epistemological beliefs of university students

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