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Higher education institutions, especially when their research and knowledge production duties are considered, should have the competencies to respond to rapid changes and transformations as an educational institution. Therefore, higher education institutions are expected to be learning organizations since they must be in a dynamic structure due to the duties and responsibilities they undertake. However, in the literature, it has been determined that there are few measurement tools to measure the level of organizational learning in higher education institutions. For this reason, in this research, it was aimed to develop a scale specific to Turkish culture that can be used in higher education institutions by using the organizational learning models in the literature. The validity and reliability studies of the scale were carried out with a total of 514 faculty members working in 12 different state universities in the 2018-2019 academic year. As a result of the exploratory factor analysis performed to test the construct validity of the scale, a three-factor structure (individual-level learning, group-level learning, organizational-level learning) consisting of 39 items was reached. Afterwards, the three-factor structure of the scale was confirmed by the confirmatory factor analysis. The McDonald’s ω coefficient for the all items of scale was found to be 0.981. It was decided that the Organizational Learning Scale for Higher Education Institutions is a valid and reliable measurement tool.

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