Abstract:

The goal of this study is to develop an assessment instrument in order to evaluate the beliefs of students about their academic sufficiency. Confirmatory fac- tor analysis was conducted in order to evaluate the validity of four factor structure that was formed as a result of exploratory factor analysis. At the end of confirmatory factor analysis that was firstly conducted, academic self sufficiency scale’s compli- ance values were analyzed. Compliance indexes that were obtained by confirmatory factor analysis are: X2= 513.04 (sd=148, p<.001), (/sd) =3.47, GFI=.90, RMSEA=.073, RMR=.04. In addition to the confirmatory factor analysis, in order to evaluate the reliability levels of scores that were obtained through academic self- sufficiency scale, Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficients that were calcu- lated on the basis of item analysis were examined. Coefficients were found for com- plete scale 91.

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