@article{2013,title={DEVELOPMENT OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE SCALE (ATITMDCS): A STUDY OF VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY},abstractNode={The purpose of the present study is to develop a measurement instrument to be used to investigate prospective teachers’ attitudes towards Instructional Technologies and Material Development course and to conduct reliability and validity analyses of the instrument. Development, reliability and validity studies of the instrument (ATITMDCS) were conducted in the fall semester of the 2012-2013 academic year at Ziya Gokalp Faculty of Education of Dicle University. The study was carried out on three different groups of students who completed Instructional Technologies and Material Development course successfully. Construct validity, internal consistency reliability and item analyses of the scale were tested on the first group consisting of 358 (174 male, 184 female) students. 79 (42 male, 37 female) students in the second group participated in the study of concurrent validity, and test-retest reliability study was conducted with participation of 106 (52 male, 54 female) students in the third group. For the analysis of concurrent validity, “Attitudes towards Instructional Technologies Scale (ATITS)” developed by Metin, Kaleli Yılmaz, Coskun and Biriscii (2012) was employed. Meanwhile, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were conducted for construct validity. Results of the factor analyses demonstrated that the scale has a three-dimensional structure. To ensure concurrent validity of the scale, correlation between ATITS and ATITMDCS was examined. There was a positive and significant (.535) correlation between the two scales. Cronbach Alpha was .90 for the whole scale, while internal consistency coefficient ranged between .78 and .95 for sub-dimensions of the scale. Test-retest reliability was .90 for the whole construct;on the other hand, it ranged between .76 and .88 for the sub-dimensions. Findings of the item analyses indicated that corrected item-total correlations ranged between .319 and .710. Overall findings revealed that the scale is a reliable and valid instrument to measure prospective teachers’ attitudes towards Instructional Technologies and Material Development course. },author={İsmail KİNAY-- Bayram ÇETİN - Birsen BAĞÇECİ - Ömer ŞİMŞEK},year={2013},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}