Barriers to Effective Learning of High School Students in Turkey

Abstract

This study aims to present the development andvalidation process of a scale to explore the learning barriers of high schoolstudents in Turkey. For this purpose, a scale was developed and administered to316 high school students studying in the different counties of Ankara in thespring term of 2014-2015 academic year. Gathering the data, an exploratoryfactor analysis was run through SPSS Package program to see the structure of the interrelationshipsamong the variables under six tests. Furthermore, a reliability analysis wasconducted to the items under each test in the scale. As a result, onefactor appeared under each test when the eigenvalues and variance percentageswere examined, making six factors in total. The Cronbach’s Alpha ReliabilityCoefficient was calculated as to be significant for each test, which showedthat the tests were reliable. Finally, some items were excluded from the scale.

Keywords

• emotional learning barriers
• motivational learning barriers
• self-regulation
• self-efficacy
• motivation
• emotional learning barriers
• motivational learning barriers
• self-regulation
• self-efficacy
• motivation