A Scale Development Study Regarding Environmental Awareness

The purpose of this study is to develop a scale in order to determine the environmental awareness of students. For this purpose, a 26-item trial form created as a result of literature review and of the interviews conducted with the students, and prepared in accordance with expert opinions in order to ensure content validity was administered to a total of 292 students, 152 male and 140 female, who attended different secondary schools, and the data obtained were analysed. An exploratory factor analysis was performed on the data using principal components analysis, and with these analyses, a scale consisting of 14 items with four dimensions (factors) including "The role of schools and publications in environmental education", "Environmental sensitivity", "The role of courses and teachers in environmental education" and “Environment outside the school” was formed. The Cronbach's Alpha internal consistency coefficient for the whole scale was calculated as ,792. A valid and reliable measuring instrument was developed