Abstract:

This study aims to investigate the validity and reliability of Turkish adaptation of Continuing Motivation for Science scale that was developed by David Fortus and Dana Wedder-Weiss. A sample of 220 students participated in the study. Once equivalency of the Turkish form was established, the construct validity of the scale was examined with confirmatory factor analysis. As a result of confirmatory factor analysis 8 items was dropped. Goodness of fit indices of confirmatory factor analysis indicated good fit between the original model and data. Cronbach alpha coefficient was found to be 0.87 and item-total correlation coefficients were between 0.53 and 0.76. According to t-test results, differences between each item’s means of upper 27% and lower 27% points were significant. The results of this study confirmed that the Turkish form of the Continuing Motivation for Science Scale is valid and reliable to be used in science education research and practice Turkey

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