İsviçre'de yaşayan altı yaş Türk çocuklarının dil kazanımlarına yönelik geliştirilen "Türkçe dili etkinlikleri gözlem formu" geçerlilik ve güvernirlik çalışması
A study on the validity and reliability of the Turkish language activities observation form developed to measure the language in six-year-old Turkish children living in Switzerland
Yazar: MUSTAFA DAMAR
Danışman: PROF. DR. ESRA ÖMEROĞLU
Gazi Üniversitesi / Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü / Çocuk Gelişimi ve Eğitimi Ana Bilim Dalı
Derece: Doktora, 2007
Konu: Dilbilim = Linguistics ; Eğitim ve Öğretim = Education and Training

Özet:
The aim of this study is to modify main problems of search and rescueteams, their problems with their coorporation where they work and team and teamstaffs' opinions in Turkey.The scope of investigation is official or volunteer search and rescue staffsfrom search and rescue teams in Turkey, committees of these team staff consist oftotally 624 search and rescue staff who working for Civil Defence Search AndRescue Centres under the auspices of General Directorate of Civil Defence(468),AKUT(87), GESOT?M(47) and GÜDAK (22).In the study, ?The Main Problems Scale of Search and Rescue Staff? isapplied as a data collection appliance . This scale have composed of 7 dimension as31 item and (1) organization, (2) legal arrangement (3) organized group, (4) traininginstructor, (5) tool, (6) literature, (7) psychological. The possible problems of searchand rescue teams are evaluated as ? Totally Disagree (1)? and ? Totally Agree (5)?on a Liket type scale.In the study, in order to assess the reliability level of the sub dimensions ofthe questionnaire, Cronbach Alpha coefficient used in testing the interior consistencyis examined, and it is calculated that the total interior consistency is .81.The results of the study shows that volunteer search and rescue staffs aremore pleased with the attitudes of the society towards them than the official researchand rescue workers, and the points related to the sub dimensions of ? the MainProblems Scale of Search and Rescue Staff? differs according to the the institutionthey take part in, their ages, their educational backgrounds and how long they haveworked so far in a great deal.ivIn conclusion, it can be suggested that the official search and rescue teams areaware of the importance of their work and they give importance to their function, butas they are in a dangerous kind of work, they want to have policy and someassistence such as education, surroundings, opportunities and physicological supportbefore, during and after the work.Although, in volunteer institutions, the problems such as coordination andgetting into contact are considered to be the main ones, the volunteers are pleasedwith their part in the organization and the fact that the society perceive their positionin a positive point of view improves their motivation.

Abstract:
This study aims to research the validity and reliability of the Turkish Language Activities Observation Form developed to measure the language acquisition in six-year-old Turkish children living in Switzerland. In addition to the validity and reliability studies, the additional questions of whether language acquisition in six-year-old Turkish children living in Switzerland varied with respect to sex, amount of time parents spent in Switzerland, number of siblings and birth order was also investigated.Data was collected through the Turkish Language Activities Observation Form developed by the researcher to measure the language acquisition in six-year-old Turkish children.As a result of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, all items on the form were found to be valid and reliable representatives of their respective sub-dimensions.The results showed that the language acquisition of six-year-old Turkish children living in Switzerland did not vary according to sex, amount of time their parents spent in Switzerland, number of siblings or birth order.