Development of the Student Alienation Scale (SAS)

Abstract

The concept of alienation (students developing negative attitudes towards school and thea ctivities done in the school) prevents educational organizations to achieve their organizationalgoals. It is clear that determining the degree of alienation is the starting point in the effort of findingsolutions. In this study, the main purpose is to develop a scale measuring students’ alienation feelings.Subjects are 857 students enrolled in various programs in the Faculty of Education. Of these students,409 are female and 448 are male. In the course of validity, the scale was reduced to 4 factors withthe use of explanatory factor analysis. Then, this four-factor structure was confirmed with the useof confirmatory factor analysis. For the purpose of measuring reliability of the scale item analysis,the Cronbach’s alpha, Spearman-Brown ve Guttman Split Half reliability coefficients and correlationcoefficients between items and the subscales were computed. As a result of validity and reliabilitystudies, it was seen that scale can be used.