School Climate Survey for Middle School Students: Validity and Reliability Study of the Turkish Form

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to translate middle school student version of School Climate Survey
developed by Emmons, Haynes, and Comer (2002) into Turkish and to conduct validity and reliability studies
on middle school students. The adaptation study of the scale was conducted with two separate participant
groups. The first group was consisted of 314 (44.4% boy and 55.6% girl) middle school students while the
second group included 348 (57.8% boy and 42.2% girl) middle school students. The findings of confirmatory
factor analyses indicated that the Turkish form of the scale was composed of 36 items and six sub-dimensions
(fairness, order and discipline, parent involvement, sharing of resources, student interpersonal relations, and
student-teacher relations). The scale had also evidence for its convergent and discriminant validity. The internal
consistency values and test-retest reliability results with a two-week interval for the overall scale and subdimensions were also at acceptable levels