Self-Efficacy Scale of Pre-School Teachers towards Mathematics Education in Pre-School Period
- 1 Department of Early Childhood Education Department, Education Faculty, Usak University, Usak, Turkey
- 2 Department of Child Development, Gelisim University, Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract
The study aims to develop an assessment instrument oriented to assess the self-efficacies of pre-school teachers towards mathematics education. The assessment instrument was applied to 255 pre-school teachers working in Yenimahalle county of Ankara province in the 2012-2013 academic year. It was found out that the first factor of “Self-Efficacy of Pre-School Teachers towards Mathematics Education” explained 46.597% of the total variance, and the second factor explained 9.035% of the total variance. In this sense, the total variance that the scale, and thus the construct validity of the scale was acceptable. The reliability co-efficient of the first factor of the scale is 0.951; the reliability co-efficient If the second factor is 0.951; and the total reliability co-efficient is 0.967.
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