Lifelong Learning as a Measurement Tool

Abstract

The impact of the 21st century has shown itself on education as in every field. The understanding that learning should continue outside of school in contemporary education models, in which the individual is aimed at self-realization, reveals the importance of the concept of lifelong learning. In this study, it is aimed to examine the lifelong learning scales in the literature from various perspectives. It is thought that there is not enough content analysis about the scales developed/adapted by researchers of the concept of lifelong learning, and the findings obtained as a result of the study are important in terms of providing scientific information to other researchers in the scale development process. The study group of the research consists of 29 articles and postgraduate theses in TOAD, YÖK-National Thesis Center, Dergipark and Google Academic databases, including scales developed on "lifelong learning". Document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used to collect data. Content analysis, one of the qualitative data analysis techniques, was used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the study, it was found that the scale development/adaptation studies by years were carried out mostly in 2014, the development studies were predominant, the number of items in the scales was between 21-30 at most, the application group of the developed/adapted scales was mostly university students, and that the scales developed/adapted were published. It has been revealed that these types are mostly master's thesis and developed/adapted in a 5-point Likert type.