Development of Instructional Strategies Scale: Reliability and Validity

In the current 21 century, when information is getting the only unlimited source of power, the value st given to education is going up and parents allocate more time and money for their children and their education. As a reaction from the education industry, schools and institutions aim to teach more permanent skills and knowledge through implementing various methods, strategies and techniques and making benefit of all the advantages of technology. To change classical perception of education and minimize the methods dating back to middle age, new techniques must be developed. Today, educational strategies have been changing from a teacher-centered education in which teacher is always active and productive to a student-centered education in which student is always active and cooperative. The purpose of this study is to find out to what extend teachers use instructional strategies. The scale used in examined in accordance with validity and reliability features. Data about construct validity is gathered through factor analysis and depending on component factorial analysis, three sub-dimensions (Teaching through Presentation, Discovery and Research-Examination) were reached. The total coefficient of reliability was calculated as 0.732 and after employing this scale to teachers, as the results, gender, socio-economic place of school and term of service were observed to cause changes in strategy use of teachers.