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The purpose of this research is to develop a scale to determine the extent to which educators, who are involved in various activities in the field of adult education, implement the andragogical instruction principles. The developed scale was applied to 341 educators conducting adult education activities in various provinces in Central Anatolia. Within the scope of validity studies, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed with SPSS 24.0 program. As a result of the analysis, a three-factor structure ("involving in the learning process", "structuring the learning climate" and "associating with experiences") explaining 52.33% of the total variance and consisting of 22 items was obtained. In the second phase of the research, the fact that it had 3 sub-factors was confirmed with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Lisrel 8.80 program. Alpha coefficient for the overall scale is .90, reliability coefficient of the first sub-dimension is .88, the second sub-dimension is .79 and the third sub-dimension is . 81. In the third phase of the research, the test-retest method was applied. While the mean and standard deviation of the scale were found to be 3.85 and 17.32 in the first application, they were determined as 3.67 and 21.28 in the second application. The Pearson correlation coefficient was detected as r=0.56 and it was significant at the level of p=.05. As a result of the research, it was determined that the scale of andragogical teaching principles developed for educators was a valid and reliable scale.

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