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The purpose of this study is to determine the validity and reliability of the Cognitive Absorption Scale developed by Agarwal and Karahanna (2000) on a group consisting of student teachers. The original scale is in English and consists of 20 items in a five factor structure. For the validity and reliability study, first the scale was translated into Turkish by an expert, then 10 experts were consulted for their opinion on the expressions in the questions, the suitability of the questions towards their aim and adequacy. The scale was obtained through a two stage process. The first study was performed on 231 preservice teachers studying at one university’s Elementary Education Department. The second one was performed on 535 student teachers studying at the elementary education departments of four universities in Ankara. After the application of a factor analysis, it was determined that unlike the original scale, the cognitive absorption scale applied to student teachers showed a four factor structure and consisted of 17 items. With this study that aims to gain the scale into Turkish, a valid and reliable scale that includes the four factors in the original study has been reached

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