Abstract
PERCEPTION SCALE OF CREATIVE READING: VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY STUDY
In Information Age, it is expected that individuals reconstruct what they read by analyzing and synthesizing. In this respect, open reading which is favorable for behaviorist approach has lost its mission and creative reading appropriate for constructivist approach has taken place of open reading. While open reading is a process of memorizing information in a text without operationalizing it in cognitive processes, creative reading is re-creating the text by one’s own life into consideration. For successful creative reading, both teachers and students should hold positive attitudes towards creative reading. The higher positive perceptions of creative reading of especially the elementary school students will increase their creative reading achievement. With this regard, in this study, a perception scale related to creative reading was developed. As a result of validity and reliability studies, a scale consisting of 3 dimensions with 25 questions was developed. Cronbach Alfa coefficient of this scale was found to be 0.87. Following the reliability analysis, it was seen that Spearman-Brown value was 0.73 and Guttman Split-Half value was 0.72. The split half reliability coefficient was 0.73 and this value was enough for split half reliability coefficient. The scale was formed as three point Likert as it was for 4th graders of elementary schools
Keywords
Scale development, creative reading, validity, reliability.