Open AccessLiterary Curiosity Scale for Secondary Education Students: A Scale Development Study
Author(s) -
Nil Didem Şimşek,
Fatih Sontay
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of psychology and educational studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2148-9378
DOI - 10.52380/ijpes.2021.8.3.514
Subject(s) - curiosity , cronbach's alpha , exploratory factor analysis , psychology , scale (ratio) , reading (process) , likert scale , mathematics education , construct validity , variance (accounting) , social psychology , developmental psychology , psychometrics , geography , cartography , accounting , political science , law , business
This study is an attitude scale development study that reveals high school students (9th, 10th, 11th grades) literary curiosity. It is thought that students with high literary curiosity have a reading culture. Reading culture is a reading level reached by transforming reading into a habit and critical reading skill. The scale created for this purpose is a 5-point Likert-type scale consisting of 30 items. The scales pilot study was conducted on 522 high school students in the fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. Exploratory factor analysis was performed to assess the construct validity of the scale. A relationship was found between the variables in the factor analysis of the items (KMO=0.955>0.60). This size was sufficient for factor analysis. As a result of the factor analysis, the variables were gathered under four factors with a total explained variance of 52.664%. The Cronbach’s Alpha (α) internal consistency coefficient for the scale items was found to be 0.945. According to the scale and test-retest findings, the scale scores differed in the bottom 27% and top 27% groups. Therefore, the literary curiosity scale was found out to be a valid and reliable instrument considering the alpha for reliability, the explained variance value, and the factor loads.