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This study aims to develop a scale of affective awareness towards instruction. The preliminary structure, reliability and validity of the affective awareness towards instruction was examined with a sample of 386 teacher candidates currently studying at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Faculty of Education. Scale development was realized through literature survey, designing an item pool, expert opinion, pilot study, main study and validity and reliability analyses. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis propose a 37-item scale capturing five dimensions which may be termed as “receiving” (7 items), “respond” (9 items), “valuing” (8 items), “organizing” (7 items) and “characterizing” (6 items). Item loads vary between ,506 - ,837. Differences between each item’s means of upper 27% and lower 27% points were significant. Cronbach α coefficient was calculated as ,896. Thus, the findings show that Scale of Affective Awareness towards Instruction can be used as a valid and reliable instrument in education and psychology.

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