The adaptation of the pedagogical knowledge and skills survey into Turkish: Validity and reliability study

This research aims to adapt the Pedagogical Knowledge and Skills in Teaching (PKST) survey developed by Wong, Chong, Choy and Lim (2012) to Turkish. The participants of the study are 830 4th year students of education faculty studying at two different public universities. Explanatory Factor Analysis (EFA) was conducted with total 205 pre-service teachers in which 110 (53. 6%) of female and 95 (46,4 %) of male. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was also carried out with total 625 preservice teachers in which 330 (52. 8 %) of them are female, 295 (47. 2 %) of them are male. Back translation was used to ensure language validity. EFA and CFA were conducted for the construct validity and to ensure psychometric characteristics of measurement tool. EFA show that survey has six factors and 37 items. Coefficient was 0.94 for the survey whereas it ranged between 0.70 and 0.88 for its factors. The analyses and findings show that the survey is a valid and reliable data collection tool.