Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Information and Communication Technologies Scale: Adaptation Study to Turkish

Abstract

This study aims to adapt the scale developed by Albirini (2006) regarding teachers' attitudes towards Information and Communication Technologies into Turkish. Since the linguistic equivalence of scale adaptation studies should be ensured before starting the reliability and validity studies, the original scale was translated into Turkish by the researchers, and the stages of translation, evaluation of translations, expert opinion, back translation, evaluation of the translation and expert opinion were applied by six different experts. The final version of the scale was discussed with Turkish teachers’ experts for a culturally acceptable translation to Turkish. The English teachers who work in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul were applied, the original English form and the Turkish translation of the scale at different times to provide data on the linguistic equivalence of the scale. After the linguistic equivalence was achieved, the descriptive method was used for the validity and reliability studies of the adaptation scale, and the participants were selected by a convenient sampling method. The participants in the research consist of 150 teachers from different disciplines who work in primary, secondary, and high schools in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul in the 2020-2021 academic year. Explanatory factor analysis, t-test, correlation, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient were calculated to measure validity. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed to ensure the construct validity of the scale. Since Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated as α = 891 and is higher than 0.7, the adaptation of the TAICT scale into Turkish can be considered reliable. It is expected that this Turkish adaptation study will be used as a tool in future educational research. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a limited number of people could be reached, and the survey studies were conducted online.