Adapting the Teachers' Efficacy and Attitudes towards STEM Scale into Turkish

Abstract

The aim of this study is to adapt the Teacher Efficacy and Attitudes Toward STEM Scale into Turkish.The Turkish version was adapted to 570 science teachers drawn from varied experiences and sciencedisciplines. Firstly, the Turkish STEM scale was validated through translation and back-translationprocedures. Secondly, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine itsconstruct validity. The results confirmed that the Turkish STEM scale possessed the same seven-factorstructure in its original version and showed good model fit indexes. The Cronbach alpha co-efficientswere ranged from 0.88 to 0.96. To sum up, this study showed that the Turkish version of the STEM scalehad a good validity and reliability for measuring science teachers' efficacy and attitudes towards STEM.