Development and validity-reliability study of the science process skills scale for preschool children

This research has been conducted to develop The Science Process Skills Scale for five year olds children who were attending preschools. Two different scales: ?The Science Process Skills Scale for Preschool Children? and ?Teacher Observation Form for Children? Science Process Skills? were developed for this study. The sample of this research was 150 children attending preschools and their teachers. In the data analyses, the demographics of the children? and their families? were presented as frequency and percentage tables. Explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted for the validity and reliability of the scales.As a result of the study, it was found that cronbach alpha was .81 for The Science Process Skills Scale and .94 for Teacher Observation Form for the Children? Science Process Skills. Moreover, factor loadings of each item ranged from .66 to .69 for the Science Process Skills Scale and it consisted of four subscales.Factor loadings of the Teacher Observation Form for Childs? Science Process Skills were ranged from .67 to .90 and it consisted of three subscales. The finding indicated that the science process skills scale and teacher observation form were yield reliable results and they had a consistent structure.