DEVELOPING A SELF-EFFICACY SCALE FOR BECOMING A TEACHER IN MULTIGRADE CLASSES

This study aimed to develop a scale that helps to determine the perceptions of student teachers' self-efficacy regarding their skills of becoming a teacher in multigrade classes. Items in the try form were developed based on literature of teaching in the multigrade classes, and also in self-efficacy, then it was taken opinions from eight experts about validity of the scala. The Principle Component Analysis technique was used for factor analysis of the data collected from 418 student teachers enrolled in four universities. For the analysis, Exploratory Factor Analysis was used in accordance with the Heuristic approach and Varimax rotation technique was used for the dispersion of factors. In the results, a scale with 2 factors and 19 items was obtained. The first of the factors found as significant in the scale explains 31% of the variance and the second factor explains 29 % of the variance of the scale. Its reliability (alpha) is .93.