GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND ADOPTATION II/4800113

Course Title:	SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND ADOPTATION II
Credits	3	ECTS	8
Course Semester	1	Type of The Course	Elective

COURSE INFORMATION

-- (CATALOG CONTENT)

-- (TEXTBOOK)

-- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)

-- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- COURSE OBJECTIVES

-- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	Psychological structure and measurement, classification of measurement tools, concept of dimensionality, scale, basic concepts of scale development
2. Week	Scale development process and examination of validity and reliability in this process
3. Week	Applicability of scales in different cultures: scale development-scale adaptation necessity, adaptation of scales for different cultures / languages
4. Week	Patterns in scale adaptation studies (applying both source and target forms of measure to bilingual individuals, applying to individuals from source c
5. Week	Source culture / language, target culture / language, validity and reliability in scale adaptation, validity enhancement
6. Week	Scale adaptation process, evaluating the necessity of scale adaptation in this process, examining translation process and semantic-idiomatic-experient
7. Week	Providing comparability of psychological measures for different cultures / languages: Measurement equality / consistency and measurement bias
8. Week	Using multi-group DFA and MIMIC modeling and computer applications to investigate measurement equality / invariance and substance bias
9. Week	Using multi-group DFA and MIMIC modeling and computer applications to investigate measurement equality / invariance and substance bias-continue
10. Week	Investigation of substance bias based on Substance Response Theory
11. Week	Intercultural educational measurement exercises: TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS, TALIS
12. Week	Project presentations
13. Week	Project presentations
14. Week	General evaluation and discussion
15. Week
16. Week

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	0	0
Assignment	2	30
Application	0	0
Projects	1	70
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0

Percent of In-term Studies		30
Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score		70

-- WORKLOAD

Activity	Total Number of Weeks	Duration (weekly hour)	Total Period Work Load
Weekly Theoretical Course Hours	14	3	42
Weekly Tutorial Hours	0	0	0
Reading Tasks	13	4	52
Searching in Internet and Library	13	4	52
Material Design and Implementation	0	0	0
Report Preparing	5	4	20
Preparing a Presentation	4	4	16
Presentation	3	4	12
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam			0
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam			0
Other (should be emphasized)			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			194
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.76
Course Credit (ECTS):			8

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

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20					X

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

(Assoc.Prof. Nilüfer KAHRAMAN)

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(http://www.websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/nkahraman)

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(nkahraman@gazi.edu.tr)

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