Özet:

The aim of this study is to develop a scale to be used to determine the internal motivations of high school students to read. The study group consists of 461 students studying in five different high schools located in the center of the province of Malatya. In the framework of the structure validity of the measurement, the opening AFA and verifying DFA factor analysis were made. The AFA finds that the scale has a three-factor interest, curiosity and determination structure consisting of eighteen elements, and that these three factors reveal 48.44% of the total variance of the scale. The conformity well-being indices obtained by DFA showed that the found structure has perfect x2/df=1.78, GFI=0.95, RMSEA= 0.041 and SRMR=0.048 conformity. In the framework of the measurement’s reliability studies, Cronbach Alpha and Spearman Brown’s values were studied, calculated reliability layers at an acceptable level of α=. It was seen as 85. To determine the level of distinctivity of the substances in the scale, the comparison of the sub-top groups of 27% with the total correlation of the corrected substance was placed. The analysis of the substance has shown that all substances in the scale are distinguishing at a high level. These findings show that the three-factor OIM is a high validity measurement tool that can be used to evaluate the internal motivations of high school students to read.