Abstract
Social media can be used for educational purposes: people help the others in their homework
and exchange ideas, are informed about their grades and lecture notes. Facebook is one of the
social media tools too. The aim of this study is to develop a likert-type scale, namely social
studies education with Facebook (SSEF), about the attitudes of teachers towards the use of
Facebook in education.The study was designed as an eclectic research and employed both
qualitative and quantitative data. The participants of the study were 202 classroom teachers.
To develop the scale item analysis, confirmatory and explanatory factor analysis were used,
and the Cronbach's Alphacoefficient was calculated. It was found that the SSEF is consisted of
seven dimensions (cultural inheritance, our country and the world, occupations and
production, science and society, social responsibility and citizenship, general items, evaluative
items) and 37 items. The overall Cronbach's Alpha coefficient was found to be .98, indicating
that the scale had higher levels of reliability. On the other hand, at the end of the
implementation of the scale the findings obtained showed that the variables of gender, age,
educational level, professional experience did not have significant effects on the dimensions
on the scale. However, the variable of professional experience significantly affected the scores
for the dimensions of our country and the world, occupations and production, social
responsibility and citizenship, general items and evaluative items. More specifically, those
classroom teachers with 1-5 yearsand 21+ years of professional experience had higher scores
in the dimensions mentioned above.
Tuğba Selanik Ay. (2016) Development of an Attitude Scale about the Use of Facebook in Social Studies Education: A Validity and Reliability Study, Journal of Elementary Education, Volume-26, Issue-2.
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