Abstract:

The aim of this study is to develop a multiple-choice achievement test consisting of valid and reliable skill-based questions about the Solar System topic for the 6th grade in the Science Curriculum, which was changed in 2018. For this purpose, 25 original skill-based questions were prepared by the researcher in accordance with the Solar System subject achievements. These prepared questions were submitted to expert opinion for validity studies, corrections were made in line with the feedback received from the experts, and a pilot application was carried out on 253 students. After the application, the data obtained from the students were analyzed with TAP. Questions that required the item discrimination index to be higher than the 0.30 value stated in the literature for all questions were removed from the test. The average item difficulty index of the test was calculated as 0.60 and the reliability coefficient was calculated as 0.77. It is thought that the Planets subject achievement test, which consists of 19 final questions obtained as a result of this study, will make a great contribution to the field with its feature of skill-based questions within the scope of 6th grade science teaching.

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