Volume 29, Issue 5, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.1033
School Administrators` Professional Motivation Scale: Validity and Reliability Study
Abstract
This study was conducted with the aim of developing the School Administrators' Professional Motivation Scale. Prepared with the opinion of the field experts. The feedback form collected information from 12 school administrators who work as teachers and who represent the people in the sample. By using the data obtained together with expert opinions, a pool of 61 items was created. Expert opinions were consulted to ensure content validity. Three items similar to each other and unrelated to attitude were removed from the scale. After the corrections were made, the item pool was reduced to 58 items. The scale data were collected from 307 school administrators who were teaching in Istanbul and Yalova provinces during the spring semester of 2016-2017. The KMO value of the scale was determined to be 0,910. As a result of the factor analysis, it was determined that 42 scale items were collected in five factors and the total variance of the scale showed 57,78%.42 items that are higher than. 40 were included in the scale. Five factors of the scale and the load of items in their last state consisting of 42 items were between. 42 and. 75. The Cronbach's Alpha coefficient of the final scale was calculated as 0,81 and was found to be credible. The test-re-test reliability coefficient of the scale was calculated as .40 and a moderate correlation was found. The results of item analysis based on the average of the upper and lower groups of all the items in the scale were found to be significantly distinctive (p <.05). This study is thought to contribute to the field.
Keywords
Motivation, Professional Motivation, Attitude, Scale Development