Open AccessHigh school students’ higher education expectation: A scale development study
Author(s) -
Çetin Yavuz,
Beste Dinçer
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cypriot journal of educational sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.22
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1305-905X
pISSN - 1305-9076
DOI - 10.18844/cjes.v15i2.4617
Subject(s) - likert scale , scale (ratio) , confirmatory factor analysis , exploratory factor analysis , psychology , internal consistency , population , item analysis , mathematics education , construct validity , variance (accounting) , statistics , social psychology , psychometrics , mathematics , developmental psychology , structural equation modeling , demography , sociology , geography , cartography , accounting , business
The aim of this study is to develop a valid and a reliable scale to determine the expectations of high school students from higher education. The population of the study consisted of 315 high school students in the 2018–2019 academic years. To test the construct validity of the scale, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used. The original five-point Likert scale composed of 22 items with five subdimensions. The results showed that the internal consistency coefficient of the scale was calculated as 0.84. The scale factor load values ranged between 0.58 and 0.81, and the rotated factor load values ranged between 0.46 and 0.81 and explained 59.1% of the total variance of the scale. The higher education expectation scale can be used not only to evaluate the students’ future and professional expectations in terms of subjective norms but also goal setting and need for the analysis of the program development studies.
Keywords: High school students, expectation, scale development.