The Adaptation of School Principals' Systems Thinking Scale to Turkish Culture in The Context of Educational Organizations: A Validity and Reliability Study

The aim of this study was to adapt the School Principal Systems Thinking scale developed by Shaked et al. (2018) to Turkish culture to determine school principals' systems thinking. The scale consists of 17 items and four subdimensions, namely openness, leadership, evaluation, and adoption. The scale was applied to 374 teachers working in U & scedil;ak province. According to the first and second -level confirmatory factor analysis results, the four -factor structure of the scale revealed good fit values. The standardized factor loadings for the 17 items of the scale ranged between .769 and .908, were statistically significant, and factorial validity was ensured. The fact that both the internal consistency coefficients and the structural reliability coefficients of the scale were greater than .70 indicated that the measurement results were reliable.