Abstract:

The aim of this study is to develop a media literacy scale for the media tools that secondary school students follow for entertainment purposes. Before the analysis in the research, the stages of scale development including literature review, interviews with teachers and students, creating an item pool, getting expert opinion, and pre-testing were followed. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the scale was carried out on the scale forms applied to 404 7th grade students studying at public secondary schools in different provinces. In this analysis, the KMO value of the 24-item scale was .935 and the Barlett test χ2= 5048.392 (p≤.01), proving that the sample group size was excellent, and the data were suitable for EFA. As a result of EFA, it was determined that the scale was in a one-dimensional structure and this dimension explained 43% of the total variance. To confirm the one-dimensional structure, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed on the scale forms applied to 234 secondary school students different from the first sample group. As a result of CFA, it was confirmed that the one-dimensional structure of the scale was confirmed and the fit indexes provided acceptable values (RMSEA=.078, GFI=.90, CFI=.93, NFI=.91). In line with the values found, it was concluded that the scale is valid and reliable.

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