Development of Teachers' Expectation of Union Organization Scale and Investigation of Their Expectation of Union Organization in Terms of Some Variables

The aim of this study is to develop the teachers' union organization expectation scale in order to determine teachers' views on the qualifications they want in unions operating in the field of education and to examine their union organization expectations in terms of various variables according to teachers' opinions. The research consists of two phases. At the first phase, it was aimed to develop the "Teachers' Union Organization Expectation Scale" in order to determine teachers' opinions about the qualities they want to have in unions operating in the field of education. The first phase of the research was conducted on a sample of 537 teachers. As a result of the exploratory factor analysis, a theoretically meaningful structure with 25 items, with factor loadings between .41 and .98, with 3 factors and eigenvalues over 1.00, was revealed, explaining 54.37% of the total variance. As a result of confirmatory factor analyses, Free Chi-square degree was 23; Comparative Fit Index (CFI) .93; Tucker Lewis Index TLI .92; Non-normed Fit Index (NNFI) .92; Bollen Fit Index (IFI) .93; Root Mean Square Errors of Prediction (RMSEA) .06; The Standardized Root Mean Square Error (SRMR) was found to be .06 and the Goodness of Fit Index (GFI) was .92. As a result, a structure with 17 items and 3 factors with factor loadings ranging from .41 to .88 was revealed. In the second phase of the research, possible changes in teachers' union organization expectations were examined in terms of gender, union membership status and age variables. According to the test results regarding union organization expectations, age, gender and union membership status, no significant relationship was found. It is recommended to conduct regression analysis studies to determine the variables affecting teachers' union organization expectations.