SCALE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FROM THE STUDENT'S PERSPECTIVE.

It is important to know what scientific knowledge is and what processes it goes through and how this knowledge will be used by scientists in future researches. While there are studies in the literature examining the effects of the history of science practices on the nature of science, no scale has been found for secondary school students on the history of science. The development of the scale and the realization of its validity and reliability stages were studied with a total of 228 secondary school students studying in Nizip district of Gaziantep province in the 2020-2021 academic year. Students were determined by random sampling method. From the validity and reliability studies, a scale consisting of 21 items and three factors named as "Interest in the History of Science", "Awareness in the History of Science" and "The Contribution of the History of Science to Learning" emerged. The levels of the Instructional Value of the History of Science Scale from Students' Perspectives, which was created with 21 expression items, were scaled with a five-point Likert scale, by making validity and reliability analyzes. The final version of the scale is presented in the appendices.EFA and CFA results were examined in construct validity studies, and the KMO (Sampling Adequacy Measure) value was found to be .92. In calculating the reliability of the scale, the Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient value was found to be 0.909. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]