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Measuring special education teachers’ attitudes towards students with multiple disabilities

Published:2023-12-31 Issue:Supplement 2 Volume:43 Page:S1-S11
ISSN:2076-3433
Container-title:South African Journal of Education
language:
Short-container-title:SAJE

Author:

Sardohan Yıldırım Adile Emel¹^ORCID,Alkan Bilal Barış²^ORCID,Bayındır Rabia²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Special Education, Faculty of Education, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

2. Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

Abstract

With this quantitative study we aimed to develop a scale that could be used to assess the attitudes of special education needs (SEN) teachers towards students with multiple disabilities. The scale was tested in 2 stages using 2 different samples. Firstly, the scale was administered to a convenience sample of 215 teachers. For the first study, the participants responded to 39 items related to the scale and 9 demographic questions. This sample was used to perform an exploratory factor analysis (EFA), which showed that the proposed scale had 5 factors and 22 items. A revised scale was applied to 228 participants. The sample was used to complete a confirmatory factor analysis to test the fit of the data to the theoretical structure. The scale’s internal consistency was found to have a Cronbach α of 0.869. With this scale it will be possible to measure special education teachers’ attitudes towards students with multiple disabilities.

Publisher

Education Association of South Africa

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