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This research has been carried out to apply and improve the Speech Anxiety Scale, which I have created for junior teachers, to understand the validity and reliability of the scale. Period of applying the scale was achieved with 607 students from 9 different departments of Sakarya University Faculty of Education including Turkish Language, Science, Mathematics, Social Sciences, English Language, Pre-school Education, Computer Technologies, Primary School Teaching and Mentally Handicapped Teaching. The students were chosen from the first and forth year classes. Structure validity as the study of validity, internal consistency and material analysis as the study of reliability have been used in the research. According to these findings, Speech Anxiety Scale can be described as a valid and reliable measuring tool which can be used in educational studies. As a result of factor analysis for construct validity, account for the 35.76 % of the total variance. The scale of the analysis, corrected item-total correlations ranged from .61 to .26. The internal consistency reliability coefficient was .79. The scale factor loadings ranged from .79 to .32. According to these findings the Speech Anxiety Scale can be named as a valid and reliable instrument that could be used in the field of education.

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