Adaptation of Motivational Access to Digital Technologies into Turkish: The Study of Validity and Reliability

The aim of this study is to adapt ‘Motivational Access’ sub-dimension of Faculty’s Information and Communication Technology Access (FICTA) (Soomro, Kale, Curtis, Akcaoglu ve Bernstein, 2018) into Turkish. Firstly, English and Turkish forms were administered to 40 teachers who are expert in English. The Pearson Correlation Coefficient which ranged from .87-.95 which indicates that Turkish version of the scale has language validity. Later, to examine construct validity of the scale, data were collected from 250 volunteer teachers for the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and from 200 volunteer teachers for the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) respectively. According to the results of the EFA, as in English version, Turkish version of the scale consisted of two sub-scales. The endogenous motivational access and the exogenous motivational access subscales had both 4 items. After EFA, CFA was accomplished with different data sets and the factor structure was determined to be acceptable. Reliability of the scale was determined through Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient which was .51 for the overall of the scale. It was .60 for the endogenous motivational access subscale and .71 for the exogenous motivational access subscale. In conclusion, the adapted scale is a valid, reliable and measurement tool for Turkish culture