Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, sa.32, ss.42-51, 2007 (SSCI)
This study has been designed to analyse the potential use of the Bracken Basic Concept Scale-Revised developed by Bracken (1998) in order to assess the concept development of Turkish children. For the validity and reliability analyses, the scale was administered to six-year old children. The validity of the scale was analysed by means of criteria validity and the reliability was analysed by the Kuder Richardson 20 coefficient and the test-retest correlation. The results of the reliability analysis indicate that the subtests of the scale have the scores between .54 and .91 for the Kuder Richardson 20 coefficient. To evaluate whether the scale provides time-dependent measurements or not, the test-retest correlation was calculated and the school readiness correlation was found to be .84, and the total concept score was .87. For the criteria validity of the scale, teacher assessments were taken as the basis and it was determined that those children whose concept development was poor and good according to the Bracken Basic Concept Scale-Revised, was also poor and good according to the teachers. The findings obtained clearly state that this scale is a valid and reliable tool to analyse the development of concept in Turkish children.