Abstract:

School safety emphasizes the security of employees, keeping them away from all kinds of dangers, creating positive human relationships and a safe climate, reducing the worries about the safety of teachers and students. In this context, the purpose of this research is to improve the scale of determining the level of school safety. The scale, based on a comprehensive literary scan and developed in accordance with the expert opinions, was developed with the application of the draft form in the Van provinces and districts first 210, then 415 teachers. The basic components analysis, which is the factor analysis technique for the structure validity of the measurement, is applied, the determined structure is also verified by the verifying factor analysis. The Cronbach Alpha ratio is calculated for the reliability study. It also looked at the total correlations of the substance for each substance's distinctivity. The scale, called the School Safety Measurement, is a valid and reliable measurement tool in educational organizations that can measure the level of reliability of teachers with respect to their institutions. The scale consisting of 27 articles has come out by four factors: situational, actional, preventive and internal. The scale is a participation scale in the likert type.

Abstract:

School safety highlights ensuring safety through avoidance of any dangers by school staff, and decreasing teacher-student anxiety about safety through positive interpersonal relationship establishment and creating a safe climate. In this context, the purpose of this study was to develop a scale to determine school safety level. The scale was developed following the application of a draft form which was based on a comprehensive literature review and expert views to primarily 210 teachers and 415 later, employed in schools of Van province and districts. Principal component analysis, a factor analysis technique, was employed for the construction validity of the scale and the determined construction was also confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach Alpha coefficient was calculated for reliability study. Moreover, item total correlations were examined for item discrimination of each one. It was concluded that the scale, which was named as “the School Safety Scale” (SSS), was a valid, reliable measurement tool to be employed to measure school safety by teachers in educational institutions. The 27-item scale had the following four factors: situational, actual/phenomenal, preventive and internal. The scale was a five point Likert-type agreement scale.   

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