Journal of Innovative Research in Social Studies

Yazarlar: Eyup YILMAZ, Selma YEL, Mark GRİFFİTHS

Konular:Eğitim, Eğitim Araştırmaları

DOI:10.47503/jirss.933699

Anahtar Kelimeler:Social problem-solving,Children,Adaptation studies.

Özet: Children, whose physiological and psychological development still continues, are more affected than adults by social problems they encounter in their daily lives and cannot solve them. Therefore, social problem-solving skill is one of the most basic skills that children should gain from an early age. However, determining whether this skill has been acquired in a proper way is as important as gaining the skill. In the literature, the fact that the limited number of inventories for determining the social problem-solving skills of primary school children did not meet the needs required the development of a new measurement tool. In this study, it was aimed to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool in order to determine the social problem-solving skill levels of primary school children. The inventory was originally developed in English and then adapted to Turkish. The practices lasted for a total of two years, one year in England and one year in Turkey. 255 primary school students studying in England and 268 primary school students studying in Turkey were included in the study. Within the scope of validity and reliability studies, the measurement invariance of measurement tools developed specific to both cultures (Turkish - British) was calculated and it was observed that the intercultural measurement invariance of the tools was achieved. The problem scenarios were coded by two different coders and the Krippendorff's Alpha (Kalpha) reliability coefficient was used for the reliability calculation between the coders. Analysis results showed that there is a high reliability between coders. As a result, it was seen that the social problem situations inventories developed in English and Turkish are valid, reliable, and usable.

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