Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to adapt the Computer Programming Self-efficacy Scale developed by Tsai, Wang and Hsu (2019) to the Turkish language and to present the validity and reliability results. The research was carried out with 297 high school and university students. The original scale consists of 16 items and five factors (Logical Thinking, Cooperation, Algorithm, Control and Debugging). First and second order confirmatory factor analysis were performed to test the construct validity of the scale. Convergent and divergent validity studies were also conducted. It was determined that the internal consistency, split-half and composite reliability coefficients were within acceptable limits. Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency coefficients for the sub-factors and overall scale were; .877 for Logical Thinking, .813 for Cooperation, .775 for Algorithm, .906 for Control, .812 for Debug, and .911 for overall scale. Item analysis showed that the corrected item total correlations ranged between .41 and .63 and the mean differences between top and bottom of 27% groups were significant. As a result, it has been determined that the Turkish form of the scale is a valid and reliable instrument that can be used to measure the computer programming self-efficacy of students at high school and higher levels.

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