Abstract:

A child is considered as the one who has the right to benefit from the human rights, even though it is not found enough, also as an individual who has special and different needs from the adults and the constituent who builds the future of the society. Hence, nations in the modern world take international steps to entitle the child special rights and to protect these rights, and they sign conventions. It is important for the structures comprising text or texts such as books or training materials, which play an important role in child education, to have sensitivity for child rights and to be adequately prepared for this. The fact that there should be a scale which makes it possible to evaluate the texts in terms of the child rights should be considered as equally important. As these evaluations increase, published books and texts designed or chosen for training materials would be more content-rich in terms of being suitable for child rights, even for teaching child rights. This study was conducted with the aim of developing The Text Evaluation Scale for Child Rights. There are four different sample chosen for the face validity, content validity and construct validity (for pilot scheme and main study) of the study. For face validity, a sample group of 3 experts chosen with the method of purposeful sampling including the researcher was formed. For content validity, snowball method was determined and studied with 12 experts. For the study of construct validity, random sampling method was performed for the sample selection in pilot study involving 120 people and in main study involving 510 people. The study was conducted according to the exploratory design among mixed methods. Qualitative data were gathered via document analysis and analyzed with the method of content analysis. As for the quantitative data, they were gathered through scanning method and analyzed with a statistical package. The theoretical framework of the scale was determined by means of the attempts, conventions, studies regarding the subject basing upon the United Nations Organization Child Rights Convention and additional protocols to this convention. One could get minimum 40 and maximum 200 points from the five-point Likert scale which consists of 28 positive and 12 negative (total 40) items. The scale has two sub-dimensions which are content and author. The fact that Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient is high regarding the sub-dimensions of the scale (author sub-dimension= 0,822 content sub-dimension= 0,834) shows that the items in the sub-dimensions are consistent with one another. Cronbach Alpha value for the whole of the scale was determined as 0, 90 which means that the scale is highly reliable. Besides, in the scale, there are items of which factor loading value is higher than 0, 45. When validity and reliability results are examined, it can be seen that the scale could be utilized to evaluate the text in terms of being suitable for the child rights

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