title: [Developing Perceived Competence Scale (PCS) for Adolescents].
abstract: In this study, Perceived Competence Scale was developed to measure high school students' perceived competence. Scale development process was verified on three different samples. Participants of the research are some high school students in 2011-2012 academic terms from Ankara. Participants' numbers are incorporated in exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and test-retest reliability respectively, as follows: 372, 668 and 75. Internal consistency coefficients (Cronbach's and stratified α) are calculated separately for each group. For data analysis Factor 8.02 and LISREL 8.70 package programs were used. According to results of the analyses, internal consistency coefficients (α) are .90 - .93 for academic competence, .82 - .86 for social competence in the samples that exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis performed. For the whole scale internal consistency coefficient (stratified α) is calculated as .91. As a result of test-retest reliability, adjusted correlation coefficients (r) are .94 for social competence and .90 for academic competence. In addition, to fit indexes and regression weights obtained from factor analysis, findings related convergent and discriminant validity, indicating that competence can be addressed in two dimensions which are academic (16 items) and social (14 items).
authors.affiliation: Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Ankara-Türkiye, arifozer@hacettepe.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Arif
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Özer
authors.affiliation: Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Kırşehir - Türkiye, digenc@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Dilek
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gençtanirim Kurt
authors.affiliation: Adıyaman Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Adıyaman-Türkiye, sevalpdr@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Seval
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kizildağ
authors.affiliation: Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Ankara-Türkiye, selenpdr@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Selen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Demırtaş Zorbaz
authors.affiliation: Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Ankara-Türkiye, farici@hacettepe.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Fatma
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Arici Şahın
authors.affiliation: Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi,Ankara-Türkiye tulina@hacettepe.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Tülin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Acar
authors.affiliation: Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Ankara-Türkiye ergene@hacettepe.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Tuncay
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ergene