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The Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Öztürk, E. Sahra |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | The aim of this research was to adapt an inventory which was developed by Mokhtari and Reichard, (2002) called "Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory". For equal forms process, both English and Turkish forms of the inventory were administered to 29 students studying at sixth-grade in a private elementary school, in Sakarya. Then, for reliability and validity, the inventory was administered to a total of 250 students studying at fifth grade in two different elementary schools located in Sakarya. In addition, EFA (exploratory) and CFA (confirmatory) analyses were used to evaluate the reliability and validity of the inventory on students' scores obtained from the inventory. The correlation coefficient between the Turkish and English forms scores was .96. All factors' reliability coefficients in the inventory ranged between .76 and .85. Considering these findings, MARSI has enough reliability and validity to be used in educational research. SUMMARY Purpose and significance: The purpose of this study was to adapt the "Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory", which was originally developed by Mokhtari and Reichard (2002). Thus, for adaption of the original inventory developed by Mokhtari and Reichard permission was taken from Kouider Mokhtari through e-mail. Since there is not a scale in Turkish in this area, it is important to bring a scale into the field measuring students' metacognitive awareness of reading strategies in Turkish. Methods: The purpose of this study was to adapt the MARSI scale into Turkish. The sample of the study was 245 fifth-grade students at two elementary schools in Sakarya, during the spring semester of 2009- 2010 academic-year. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were performed to examine the original scale's structure approved by Turkish experts in Turkish culture. The Cronbach Alpha and the test-retest values were calculated. Results: The 30-item MARSI was translated into Turkish and back-translation into English by a language specialist. Translated items and proposed form were given to experts for their opinion. English and Turkish forms of scale were both filled by 29 fifth-grade students in a private elementary school in two- week intervals respectively. Two forms were accepted as equal since the correlation between them was 0.96. EFA was conducted and it was found that three-factor structure of the original scale was preserved when it was administered to Turkish students. The results of EFA also showed that Eigen value of the Turkish form of the scale was 12.87 and it explained 42.6% of total variance. All items in the Turkish form were found to be consistent with the sub-factors of the original scale; only the order of sub-factors was changed. First and second CFA were conducted to find out whether the Turkish scale was consistent with the original scale. Fit indices were found to be (sd=397, p.=.00), χ 2 /sd=1.44, RMSEA=0.044, SRMR=0.052, GFI=0.86, AGFI=0.85, CFI=0.98, NFI=0.94, IFI=0.98 ve NNFI=0.98. When fit indices are examined, it can be concluded that all values satisfied the criterion values or were very close to them. Cronbach Alpha Coefficient was found to be .93 for the overall scale. The reliability values for the factors were .85, .76 and .81 respectively. The internal consistency values obtained were consistent with those found by Mokhtari and Reichard (2002). Discussion and Conclusions: In this study, the scale was adapted to Turkish. The adapted Turkish form was found to be consistent with the original form regarding item-factor consistency and structure. Although the psychometric characteristics of the adapted Turkish scale was found to be convenient for a scale, some values were lower than the values of the original scale. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 11 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ilkogretim-online.org.tr/index.php/io/article/download/1494/1350 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://toad.halileksi.net/sites/default/files/pdf/okuma-stratejileri-ustbilissel-farkindalik-envanterinin-turkce-formunun-gecerlik-ve-guvenirlik.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
