Development and Validation of the Strategic Test to Strengthen Meta Education Competency

This study was conducted to develop and validate a scale for Strengthening the meta education capacity of general high school students. To this end, a preliminary scale of 81 items was developed through analysis of previous studies, interviews and discussions with high school teachers, review by high school students, and content validity review by a group of experts. The study participants were recruited through IRB-approved procedures. Response from 800 students in their first and second year of high school was collected out of which 89 responses were excluded for being unreliable and a total of 711 responses were analyzed. The researcher's predicted construct validity was confirmed through exploratory factor analysis, and the final items were selected by verifying the suitability of the research model through confirmatory factor analysis. As a result of examining the correlation coefficients between the sum scores by factor, the correlation between each factor was found to be positive. When examining the skewness and kurtosis of the descriptive statistics for each measured variable, the results did not deviate from the normal distribution. Therefore, the strategy scale for strengthening the meta education capacity was finalized to consist of a total of 39 items, including 7 items on basic academic ability, 6 items on implementation of educational principles, 7 items on educational innovation, 6 items on adaptability to educational styles, 6 items on future growth literacy, and 7 items on educational activity-operation ability. The strengthening of meta education capacity scale developed in this study will be used to test the educational competencies of high school students. This study is expected that will be performed correlation analysis with new scales developed through various follow-up studies.