Cursive Handwriting Anxiety Scale for Teachers

Abstract

In Turkey, according to 2005 Primary Curriculum; handwriting style was changed. Cursive handwriting was replaced by manuscript to teach in the first grade. Students are going to write only with cursive handwriting during their academic education. This change in the curriculum effects teachers because they must write with cursive handwriting in the lessons, too. All teachers in every branch must learn to write with cursive handwriting even if they teach handwriting or not. Class teachers try to teach cursive handwriting but in the lessons of branch teachers problems can be occurred about cursive handwriting. Beside this most of the teacher training programs don’t have course about teaching handwriting except primary school teachers' and Turkish teachers training programs'. The aim of this study is to develop a scale to measure handwriting anxiety of teachers. The research is carried out in five steps as literature analysis, forming the item pool, taking the opinions of subject experts, figuring out the application, validity and reliability.