A STUDY FOR DEVELOPING ATTITUDE SCALE TOWARDS HISTORY OF TURKISH REVOLUTION AND KEMALISM COURSE

The History of Turkish Revolution and Kemalism course contributes to creation of the social memory of individuals in general. However, this course is expected to provide positive attitudes towards national values. For this purpose, various scales have been developed to determine attitudes towards the course. However, although these scales have functional contributions in determining attitudes; they were found to be problematic in some respects. In this context, the aim of the research is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool to determine the attitudes of 8th grade students towards Revolution History and Kemalism course and to create an interpretation guide for it. The research was in a screening model and the participants were selected by random stratified sampling. In this context, secondary schools in Sakarya, which are separated according to the service areas of the Ministry of Education, have been determined by chance. The scale was applied to 889 students in the selected secondary schools. The data of the study was analyzed with SPSS 22 and AMOS 23 statistical package programs. In the analysis phase, the construct validity of the scale was first examined. For this purpose, exploratory (EFA) was used to determine factor structure and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test construct validity. Subsequently, reliability and item analysis studies were initiated. As a result of these analyzes, the scale was determined to have a factor structure consisting of 22 items and 4 dimensions