Developing Teacher Professionalism Scale: Validation and Reliability Study /Öğretmenlik Mesleği Profesyonellik Ölçeği Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

The research is aimed to develop a valid and reliable instrument which is will measure professionalism level of teaching profession based on literature, expert and practitioner masters’ student of educational administration program knowledge. Research sample consisted of 315 teachers from different parts of Turkey at elementary and secondary level. Exploratory followed by confirmatory factor analyses to validate the scale. Exploratory factor analyses revealed that teacher professionalism scale could have 9 dimensions with explained 58,96 % of total variance. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed acceptable indexes. Composite teacher professionalism scale’ cronbach alpha reliability coefficient was ,93. Results shows that teachers professionalism scale, includes 46 items, validated and reliable.