Abstract

The purpose of this research is to develop a scale to determine the perceptions of teachers working in secondary schools related to school safety. Alongside the social actors, the elements involved in achieving the goals of educational activities are important actors in the solution and implementation of the school security problems. Therefore, the actors performed in this way and were want teachers' perception of safety education activities in schools is critical. The research includes a scale development study. Certain steps in the scale of development for secondary teacher’s perceptions of school safety were monitored. Reliability and Validity Scale with work related to the development of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyzes were performed. Exploratory factor analysis of the obtained 40-item scale 54.233 discloses % of the total variance. Analyzes showed that reliability coefficients of scale factors ranged from .769 to .893. These values are enough to pass to the confirmatory factor analysis. Confirmatory factor analysis results showed that SSS is a valid tool to measure teachers’ perceptions about school safety. Structures of this study, data collected through school safety scale set Cronbach's alpha was calculated in order to determine the internal consistency. Application in terms of behavior and School Safety "Although low compared to other dimensions of size with .61, scale and reliability coefficients ranged between .80 and .93 for the dimensions have been determined to be highly reliable. İmplications for Research and Practice: With the help of the developed scale, relations between school safety perceptions and personal variables, organizational stress, school climate, use of security technologies, occupational burnout and organizational commitment can be examined. Effects of student perceptions of school safety on their academic success can be researched. Similar scales can be developed for parents, administrators, preschool, elementary school teachers, lecturers, and university students.

Highlights

  • Findings related to the validity of School Safety Scale KMO and Bartlett test were applied to check the suitability of the sample size and the data set for factor analysis

  • The anti-image correlation matrix, which is an alternative method for the analysis of whether the R-matrix obtained from the variables before the KMO and Bartlett tests is suitable for factor analysis, is calculated

  • After determining that the data set was suitable for factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis was performed after exploratory factor analysis in order to determine the construct validity of the scale

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Summary

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Our school has experienced incidents of sexual harassment against teachers by students. The students experienced sexual harassment among themselves. There have been students/teachers/administrators/parents who have 0.724 suffered or died in violence incidents in our school. There are often theft and extortion cases. I witnessed parents' physical violence against teachers. Mobbing (psychological pressure, mobbing, intimidation, intimidation, harassment) events are. There are often threats and blasphemy incidents. In the laboratory and workshops, necessary safety measures (such as toxic, flammable, flammable, explosive, etc.) are taken and controlled regularly. Our school is well equipped for natural disasters (earthquake, flood, hurricane, fire etc.)

School Safety in terms of Health and Hygieneı
School Safety in terms of Environmental School Safety
School Safety in terms of Practices and Behaviors
School Safety in terms of Legislation and Rules
Number of Items
Teacher Perceptions of School Safety in terms of Physical Conditions
Strongly Disagree Disagree Undecid Agree Strongly Agree
Teacher Perceptions of School Safety in terms of Health and Hygiene
Teacher Perceptions of School Safety in terms of Legislations and Rules
Teacher Perceptions of School Safety in terms of Environment
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