Adaptation of The Early Childhood Curricular Beliefs Inventory into Turkish: Validity and Reliability Study

dc.creator	Sema SOYDAN
dc.date	2013-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:12:03Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:12:03Z
dc.identifier	1302-5007
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/dceb887a8c0b4a67befcd9b304a14e89
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/14933
dc.description	The aim of this study is to adapt The Early Childhood Curricular Beliefs Inventory (ECCBI) questionnaire into Turkish. The ECCBI is a tool designed for exploring curricular beliefs of pre-service teachers in the area of early childhood education. A subscale named “behavioural approach” is not in the Turkish adaptation of the scale according to expert opinions, three subtests meaning 54 items out of 72 items have been included in the adapted version of scale. After the equivalence test of Turkish form, instrument has been applied to 30 preschool teachers and 200 preservice preschool teachers and total 230 person. In order to test construct validity of Turkish instrument, confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis have been applied; to identify reliability, Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient, Sperman-Brown formula and Guttmann split-half reliability formula have been employed and corrected item-total correlation has been examined. Results show that this scale is a suitable assessment tool for the pre-service teachers to determine their related beliefs about early childhood approaches.
dc.language	Turkish
dc.publisher	Ahi Evran University
dc.relation	http://kefad.ahievran.edu.tr/archieve/pdfler/Cilt14Sayi1/JKEF_14_1_2013_227-242.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1302-5007
dc.source	Journal of Kirsehir Education Faculty, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 227-242 (2013)
dc.subject	Early Childhood Education
dc.subject	Behavioural Approach
dc.subject	Bank Street Approach
dc.subject	Montessori Approach
dc.subject	High Scope Approach.
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Adaptation of The Early Childhood Curricular Beliefs Inventory into Turkish: Validity and Reliability Study
dc.type	article