THE ADAPTATION OF SCALE INTO TURKISH RELATED TO STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION TOWARDS SCIENCE LEARNING AND INVESTIGATION OF SOME PSYCHOMETRIC FEATURES

Abstract

In this research scale of students’ motivation towards science, learning has been adapted into the Turkish language. Participants of this study have consisted of 258 pre-service students studying at the faculty of education at Inonu University. Firstly, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were processed for data collecting tool. Secondly, this process was continued by scale’s sub-dimensions’ assessment through Step-Wise method and multiple regression analysis successively. Finally, in order to determine the data collecting tool’s percentage of classification achievement, discriminant analysis was applied. After all possible presuppositions for each analysis were evaluated, and then the decision in application of affiliated true analyses was put into practice. In this respect, skewness, kurtosis, multi-collinearity, Wilks Lambda, canonical, correlation and Chi-Square analyses were computed. As a result of the application of exploratory and confirmatory analyses, the scale was tailored into the form of six factors and thirty items. Regarding multiple regressions, six models were managed to produce. Of all regression models, predicting the model observed in the most ratio was sub-dimension learning environment simulation and it can be addressed that this sub-dimension has explained 62 % percentage of the total variances. In this study, pre-service students were also inquired based on motivational variable whether they could be classified or not in terms of their departments. In this aspect, discriminant analysis was used. Discriminant’s general classification achievement was accomplished as 27.5 %.