This study aimed to develop a scale to measure anxiety levels related to the Ottoman Turkish course, a compulsory undergraduate subject taught for at least one semester, and to examine its psychometric properties. A survey model, one of the quantitative research approaches, was adopted. Data were collected in two stages: first for exploratory factor analysis (n=270) and then for confirmatory factor analysis (n=217). During data analysis, descriptive statistics, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, reliability analysis, item-total correlation, and two-step cluster analysis for standard setting were conducted. The exploratory factor analysis showed that the scale had a single-factor structure consisting of 25 items, and this structure was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. The findings indicated that the developed scale is a valid and reliable tool for measuring undergraduate students’ anxiety levels during and after the Ottoman Turkish course and can be used to identify their anxiety levels related to this course.
Ottoman Turkish, scale development, validity, reliability, standard setting.