The study of visual reading strategies scale of validity and reliability in comprehension teaching

The purpose of this research is to develop a scale which intends to measure levels of primary school teachers in using visual strategies in comprehension teaching. Scale form has been prepared in 50 items likert structure by profiting from concerned academicals resources and thesis's. This scale tool is consisted of two sections. In the first section, there are items which aim to determine the levels of branch teachers' participation to the questions that have been asked regarding application of visual strategies. In the second section, there are items which aim to determine the levels of strategies in comprehension teaching. The application of the scale has been put into practice by branch teachers of center primary schools in Siirt, in 2008-2009 teaching year. In the structure validity of scale, the rate of KMO test has been found as 0.912, the rate of Barlett Sphericity test has been found as 6282,592 ( p=0.00). The coefficient reliability of scale has been appointed as 0.93. It has been applied to Sperman Brown two semi-test correlation analyses in order to ensure the reliability of scale. One of the ways that has been resorted to determine inner-consistency of scale has been to test sub 27% and top 27% groups of items of average scores differences composed of according to total scores of test by using Independent Samples Test.