Adaptation of a Test in Turkish About Evaluation of the Six Year Old Children’s Emotional Skills: Validity and Reliability Study

Abstract

Abstract:The aim of this study was to adapt the test Evaluation of six year old children's emotional skills test (identify the emotions, understand and express them.) which was developed by Schultz& Izard (1998) to Turkish. The sampling of the study was composed of six year old 111 preschoolers who are attending four official and one private nursery school classes affiliated with the Ministry of National Education and one private nursery school. During validation process construct validity were used. During reliability process, KR 20 reliability method, item analysis, split halves, item difficulty, item differentiation, and significance test between the differentiation of top and bottom %27 are used. At the end of this validity and reliability process six items in evaluation of emotional skills test are removed. When validity and reliability of the last version of the test examined, it is seen that it is a valid and reliable instrument to evaluate six year old children's emotional skills.