Abstract
The purpose of this study is to develop a five-point likert scale called ‘Curriculum Fidelity’. For this purpose, a draft scale consisting of 65 items have been represented to the expert opinion firstly and it has been decided that 15 items should be excluded. The remaining 50 items have been given to 249 teachers and the maximum likelihood has been used in the factor analysis of the scale in order to examine the structural validity. The remaining 28 items have been grouped into 3 factors. The explained variance is 62,753 of the total variance. The Cronbach’s Alpha value is 0.94. Furthermore, item-total, item-remaining and item discrimination have been found significant. After exploratory factor analysis, it has been found that goodness of fit indexes are acceptable according to the results of confirmatory factor analysis (RMSEA= .075; CFI= .90; RMR= .08; GFI= .79; AGFI= .76; NNFI= .89).
Highlights
T official curriculum which is prepared and sent to the schools is supposed to be followed, the effect of many variables such as differences in teachers’ practices, school infrastructures and students differences causes the differecences in the implementation of the curriculum and that differences in the implementation of the official curriculum lead to the operational and the neglected curriculum
When the literature has been reviewed, it has been concluded that the extend to which the implementers are loyal to the original curriculum is called as curriculum fidelity Mihalic, 2004; Lynch ve O’Donnell, 2005; Carroll, Patterson, Wood, Booth, Rick ve Balain, 2007; Davis, 2014) and it has been found that this term is generally named as either curriculum fidelity (Vartuli and Rohs, 2009) or implementation fidelity (Munter ve Garrison, 2010; Durkin, Pollack, Star ve RittleJohnson, 2012; Woolley, Rose, Mercado ve Orthner, 2013)
A 5-point Likert-type draft scale consisting of 65 items has been prepared based on the literature, expert opinion and answers to the open-ended questions directed to teachers
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In-Text Citation: (Ocak & Olur, 2019) To Cite this Article: Ocak, G., & Olur, B. (2019). In-Text Citation: (Ocak & Olur, 2019) To Cite this Article: Ocak, G., & Olur, B. The Development of the Curriculum Fidelity Scale. Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 8(4), 186–200 The full terms of this license may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
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