Öğretmenler ?çin Örgütsel Bağlılık Ölçeği: Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalısması

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a reliable and valid scale that measures teachers? commitment The sample of the study consists of two separate teacher groups The first group consists of 310 voluntary teachers working in primary and secondary schools in Malatya province The second group consists of 201 teachers working in 20 different schools In order to test the construct validity of the scale the data obtained from the first group were subjected first to exploratory factor analysis and later to confirmatory factor analysis In order to test the criterion validity of the scale Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire MSQ and Maslach Burnout Inventory MBI were administered on a second group of teachers For reliability studies internal consistency coefficient and test retest correlation coefficient were estimated using the relevant software Findings obtained from exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis showed the scale has one factor structure with 17 items Results revealed that Teachers? Organizational Commitment Scale TOCS has a high positive correlation with MSQ and average negative correlation with MBI The internal consistency of the scale was found ? 96? and test retest correlation coefficient was found ? 88? These results show that TOCS is a valid and reliable scale to measure teachers? commitment This study aimed to determine the school principals rsquo; sense of efficacy burnout and the relationship between principal self efficacy and burnout The participants of the study comprised a total of 119 F=7 M=112 primary school principals attending an in service training program arranged jointly by Inonu University Faculty of Education and TED Malatya College during 3 5 May 2009 Participants rsquo; sense of efficacy and burnout were measured by an adapted version of Principal Sense of Efficacy Scale and Friedman School Principal Burnout Scale Results revealed that principals rsquo; views about sense of efficacy differ significantly in terms of professional experience and teacher population in school Results also showed that principals rsquo; levels of burnout differ significantly in terms of student and teacher population in school Besides corelational analyses showed that there was a negatively moderately relationship between principals sense of efficacy and their level of burnout