The purpose of this study was to create a measurement instrument that would be both valid and reliable for assessing middle school branch teachers' perceptions of curriculum leadership. A straightforward random sample technique was used to choose the participants. 343 middle school branch teachers made up the study's sample. The researchers…

Deficit thinking is one of the theories developed to explain achievement gaps among different student groups. It attributes academic failure to perceived deficiencies within students, disregarding the role of structural inequalities in education. This study aims to develop a valid and reliable scale to measure Turkish teachers' attitudes toward…

Online learning has been conducted in recent years, especially during crises. There have been some studies to increase its effectiveness. Acceptance of online learning is important and affects learners' comfort and their future use. The purpose of this study was to adopt the acceptance of online learning scale into Turkish culture which was…

Objective: This study aimed to develop and test a scale for measuring the quality of blended learning models in higher education. Methods: This research adopts a sequential mixed-method approach to construct a new measurement scale. The first phase consisted of the inductive approach to identify the items, followed by exploratory factor analysis.…

Technological mediation has gained relevance in teaching mathematics. Its usefulness and impact depend, to a great extent, on how students approach the learning of the discipline. Two independent instrumental studies were conducted to analyze the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Mathematics and Technology Attitudes Scale…

The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable scale to measure the time traps teachers fall into during the teaching-learning process. The sample consists of 234 final-year students continuing their education at the Faculty of Education in the first implementation and 233 pedagogical formation students in the second implementation.…

The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool to measuring teachers' leader-member exchange behaviors. The study group of the research consists of 396 teachers working in secondary schools in the central districts of Eskisehir, Odunpazari and Tepebasi, in the 2018-2019 academic year. The construct validity of the scale…

This study aims to develop a valid and reliable achievement test in accordance with the content framework of the 9th-grade Biology Course Curriculum published within the scope of the Turkish Century Maarif Model on the subject of "Organic Matter". The screening method was used for this purpose. The sample of the study consists of 258…

Creative orientation is the extent to which different individuals are drawn toward creative activities (e.g., art, music). We know relatively little about child-level creative orientation given certain testing limitations. Adult tools often measure time spent engaged in creative pursuits, but this method is unsuitable for children because their…

This paper presents the development and validation of the Learning & Educator Nurturing Style (LENS), a new inventory in Japanese designed to identify and assess educational philosophy. Based on the Philosophies Held by Instructors of Lifelong-learners (PHIL) framework, LENS was created through a rigorous back-translation process to ensure…

This study was aimed at developing and validating a scale that measures the emotions of secondary school students toward Biology. Before selecting a particular subject, it is very important to measure student's emotions toward that subject. The emotions were measured in two academic contexts: class-related and learning-related situations. The…

This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable scale for determining teachers' needs to increase their efficiency in professional practice. The stages of creating an item pool, consulting expert opinions, pilot testing, and conducting validity and reliability analyses were followed. Initially, a 46-item pool was created based on a literature…

In recent years, numerous research studies have highlighted how teachers' perceptions of educational robotics (ER) and their sense of self-efficacy can influence the learning process. Although different instruments exist to investigate teachers' perspectives on ER, the Robotics Interest Questionnaire (RIQ) scale, developed within the Portuguese…

Scoring rubrics are known to be effective for assessing writing for both testing and classroom teaching purposes. How raters interpret the descriptors in a rubric can significantly impact the subsequent final score, and further, the descriptors may also color a rater's judgment of a student's writing quality. Little is known, however, about how…

The research aims to develop a measurement tool with validity and reliability for measuring loss of power (entropy) in schools. The study group of the research consists of a total of 596 teachers working in 15 public schools in Van Province in the 2023-2024 academic year. As a result of the application of Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) to 381…