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ADAPTATION OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN SCHOOL SCALE INTO TURKISH A STUDY OF VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY
Student Engagement in School Scale , aiming to assess the university students’ feeling of belonging on the school community, was developed by Veiga (2016). The purpose of this study is to adopt the abovementioned scale into Turkish.The Student Engagement Scale has a four dimensional structure with four factors (cognitive ,affective, behavioural, and personal agency)The results obtained are as follows ; the internal consistency matrix Cronbach’ alpha ?=.87, cognitive.85, affective.87, behavioural.91 and agency.81 . The items 3,13,19 were separated as a result of DFA applied in the scale. The items 2,11, 15, 18, 19 are the counter ones. High scores obtained from the scale show that the students’ engagement in their school is high.The study involved a total of 52 students, (% 69.2 female , % 30.8 male , Ss:.46), attending English Language and Literature Department at Selçuk University . The data obtained from the study shows a high rate of correlation ( r=.92,p< .01) when the English and Turkish forms are compared . The integration indexes , related to the 17 items tested with DFA and Student Engagement Scale consisting four sub factors , are as follows ; (X2=1523,30, sd=100, p=.00, X2 /sd=1.523). The integration index values were found as RMSEA=.067, RMR= .014, NFI=.90, CFI=.94, IFI=.94, RFI=.90, AGFI=.90, GFI=.90. As a result of the correlational analysis carried out with criterion based reliability of Student Engagement Scale ; the scores the students got from the forbearance scale have a correlation with the common engagement scale in a positive way but vice verse with the alienation to the school .All in all , 17 items and 4 sub dimensional assessment tools are available to be used by the researchers

Keywords
Engagement in school- the feeling of belonging - validation - reliability

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