SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Course Title:
SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Course Code:
YBS5124
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Type of Course:
Optional
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Level of Course:
Second Cycle
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Year of Study:
1
6
Semester:
2
7
ECTS Credits Allocated:
3
8
Theoretical (hour/week):
2
9
Practice (hour/week) :
0
10
Laboratory (hour/week) :
0
11
Prerequisites:
12
Recommended optional programme components:
None
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Language:
Turkish
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Mode of Delivery:
Face to face
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Course Coordinator:
Dr. Ögr. Üyesi FATİH GÜRSES
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Course Lecturers:
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Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:
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Website:
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Objective of the Course:
The aim of the course is to provide students with the ability to do the basic processes of developing and adapting measurement tools used in the research process, item analysis techniques and validity and reliability studies.
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Contribution of the Course to Professional Development
Students will have the ability to learn and apply the scale development process in social sciences, problems that may be encountered, steps to be followed, and statistical methods that can be used.
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Learning Outcomes:
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To discuss the basic concepts of scale and scaling;
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To gain knowledge of the types of measurement tools used in the research process;
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Apply classical and modern methods in scale development;
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To be able to evaluate the validity and reliability of the measurement tools to be used;
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To be able to evaluate the data collected with the developed measurement tools;
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Course Content:
Week
Theoretical
Practical
1
Introduction
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Scale Development Process From Scratch
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Scale Adaptation Process
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Survey and Scale Difference
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Scale types and Likert type scales
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Validity: Explanatory Factor Analysis
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Validity: Confirmatory Factor Analysis
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Reliability 1
9
Reliability 2
10
Introduction to SPSS and the suitability of the data set to factor analysis 1
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Introduction to SPSS and the suitability of the data set to factor analysis 2
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Determining the number of factors
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Reliability analysis
14
Reporting the results
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Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:
Karagöz, Yalçın; Bardakçı , Sait, Bilimsel Araştırmalarda Kullanılan Ölçme Araçları ve Ölçek Geliştirme, Nobel Yayıncılık, 2020.
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Assesment
TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES
NUMBER
PERCENT
Midterm Exam
1
40
Quiz
0
0
Homeworks, Performances
0
0
Final Exam
1
60
Total
2
100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade
40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade
60
Total
100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
Relative Evaluation
Information
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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE
Activites
NUMBER
TIME [Hour]
Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical
14
2
28
Practicals/Labs
0
0
0
Self Study and Preparation
0
0
0
Homeworks, Performances
0
0
0
Projects
0
0
0
Field Studies
0
0
0
Midtermexams
1
25
25
Others
0
0
0
Final Exams
1
40
40
Total WorkLoad
118
Total workload/ 30 hr
3,1
ECTS Credit of the Course
3
26
CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS
