A Scale Development Study To Determine The Self-efficacy Perception Of Students On Written Exams

Authors : Gürbüz OCAK, İjlal OCAK, Nil AKYOL

Pages : 53-67

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Publication Date : 2016-06-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Institutions such as The ministry of Education and student selection and placement center place importance on assessment and evaluation techniques in recent years to measure efficacy of students. The institutions are trying to carry out written examinations and provide the adaptation of students to this kind of evaluation technique. In this study, general survey model is used. The application scale of the self-efficacy towards written examination was developed in the direction of Mamak Anatolia high school and Sehit Piyade Er Murat Eroglu secondary school students. The validity and the reliability of the scale is done on the data gained from 305 students elected by the method of convenience sampling. At first, the scale was prepared as 61 items. Then 36 items are taken out related to factor analysis and 25 items left eventually.  KMO insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Kaiser-Meyer Olkin ); value is 0.870 and the value of insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Cronbach alpha); calculated for the reliability study is .887. As a result of factorial validity of the scale, items change between .416  and  .722. According to the factor analysis results, three factors are found. These factors are ‘self-confidence’, ’higher order thinking’ and ‘effort’. This study shows that the scale has a valid and reliable form.
Keywords : written examination, self efficacy, assessment and evaluation