Abstract:

The purpose of the study is to examine how scale development and scale adaptation were conducted in Turkish academic journals on education between 2006 and 2014. Content analysis is used during the examination of the articles. The population of the study includes Turkish academic journals on education that are indexed in Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). Of the oriented sampling methods the criterion sampling was used in order to select the open Access journal articles on scale development and adaptation that were published in Education and Science, Hacettepe University Journal of Education, and Journal of Social Sciences of the Turkish World between 2006-2014. The phases of scale development and adaptation were examined and compared. The findings of the study show that during the phases of scale development and adaptation Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the inner consistency in all articles. However, only a few articles include the instructions on how to apply the scale. During the scale adaptation process two or more translators who were proficient in both languages were used for translation. But in none of the articles scale application instructions were adapted. On the other hand, in only a few articles Split-half reliability was used and an expert was consulted for the adaptability of the scale. These findings reveal that a unified approach was not taken in the articles during scale development and adaptation processes. In only a few articles similar approaches were used. Thus, particular phases mentioned in this study should be taken into consideration during scale development and adaption

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