A cultural adaptation study of multimedia course materials forum to Turkish

The purpose of this study is to translate into Turkish and establish the validity and reliability of a forum used to evaluateteacher candidates’ studies about multimedia course materials which they had created in project‐based learning. Theresearcher created the “Evaluation of multimedia course materials which teacher candidates had created in project basedlearning” forum in 2007 using selected statements from a website which that supports materials for teachers. The forumhas been translated into Turkish using the back‐translation method. The forum was administered to a randomly selectedsample of 202 teacher candidates (100 females and 102 males) from various departments of Near East University in Cypruswho enrolled in the course “Instructional Technologies and Material Development”. The validity of Turkish form hadaccording to expert opinion. Statistical analyses showed that the reliability of the forum to be 0.93 (Cronbach’s alpha). Theend of the result is that this forum can be use to evaluate students’ multimedia materials which they had developed inproject‐based learning.