Teacher Anxiety Scale for Organizing Trips to Out-of-School Learning Environments: Development and Validity of the Scale

Authors : Selçuk Arik, Aykut Emre Bozdoğan

Pages : 111-130

Doi:10.17275/per.22.82.9.4

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Publication Date : 2022-07-01

Article Type : Research

Abstract :This study aims to develop a valid and reliable "Teacher Anxiety Scale for Organizing Trips to Out of School Learning Environments” to measure teachers' anxiety about out-of-school learning environments. This research focuses on the methodological validity and reliability of the scale. The study group of the research consisted of 394 teachers working in public and private schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in different cities of Turkey. In the development of the scale, the processes of literature review, creating an item pool, obtaining expert opinion, pilot test, creating the trial form, data collection, data analysis (exploratory factor analysis, repeated exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, item analysis, and reliability analysis), and creating the final form were followed. As a result of the analysis, a valid and reliable scale consisting of 28 items and four factors was created. The factors of the scale were named "Bureaucracy-Related (BR) Anxiety”, "Safety Risks-Related (SRR) Anxiety”, "Harm-Related (HR) Anxiety” and "Pedagogy-Related (PR) Anxiety”, respectively. While the Cronbach’s Alpha reliability coefficient for the total scale was determined as .944; the reliability coefficients for the factors were determined as BR Anxiety Cr α=.868, SRR Anxiety Cr α=.922, HR Anxiety Cr α=.903, and PR Anxiety Cr α=.952, respectively. The results indicate that the scale is quite reliable.
Keywords : Out-of-school learning environments, trip, teacher, anxiety, scale development