Abstract:

The aim of this study is to develop a valid and safe scale to be used to show how effective geography teaching by distance education. The items in the scale created in the study were determined by the researchers by scanning the literature, creating an item pool and obtaining expert opinion. While the universe of the study is constituted of geography teachers in Istanbul, the sample is composed of 356 geography teachers who were chosen randomly in Istanbul in the 2020-2021 academic year. The scale data obtained by applying to geography teachers were subjected to explanatory and confirmatory factor analyzes, and a 5-point Likert-type, one-dimensional scale consisting of 13 items was obtained according to the analysis results. The item loads of the scale take values between .45 and .78 and the fit index values are χ2/sd = 3.76, p<.01, RMSEA = .08, GFI = .90, CFI = .91, SRMR = .06, AGFI = .85. The total variance for the scale was 43% and the Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient for the whole scale was 0.88. Hence scale items denoted a high level of correlation with the whole scale. According to these results, the scale of effectiveness of distance education in geography teaching is valid and reliable. According to these results, it can be used to measure the attitudes of geography teachers towards distance education.

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