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Turkish Adaptation Study of Critical Thinking Motivational Scale

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Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Tokat-Türkiye

HAYEF: Journal of Education 2016; 13: 159-173
Read: 5257 Downloads: 1201 Published: 28 July 2016

The aim of this study was to adapt the Criticalhinking Motivational Scale, developed by Valenzuela, Nieto, and Saiz, intourkish and evaluate its validity and reliability. he original scale was firsttranslated into urkish and then administered to 312university students. It was found that 19 items were placed under five factorsas occurred in the original scale. hese factors are expectancy, attainment, intrinsic/interestvalue, utility, and cost. hen, a confirmatory factor analysis was performed todetermine if it fits to the model in the original scale. Compliance index resultsshowed that the fit between model and data provided acceptable. Besides,reliability of the measurement on the adapted form was evaluated by calculatinginternal consistency and item-scale correlations. It was concluded that theurkish form can be used to assess students’ critical thinking motivation.

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