The validity and reliability study of the social ability questionnaire
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The purpose of this study was to determine the
validity and reliability of The Social Ability Questionnaire developed
by Yang et al, (2006) in a group of Turkish college students. The
original questionnaire was in English and had five factors, 30 items.
First of all, the original questionnaire was translated into Turkish, and
obtained experts’ critics in terms of language, content, measurement
and evaluation etc. Afterwards, both the English and Turkish forms
were administered to a group of M.E.T.U. students (n=28) in a period
of two week to determine the equivalency of these two forms. Finally,
the Turkish version was administered group of university students
(n=160) who have experienced online learning. Like the original form,
the results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the Turkish
version had five factors and consisted of 27 items. The Cronbach’s
Alpha internal consistency coefficient was also computed as .86.