The Development of Sexual Knowledge Test Depending on Sex Education Programs

Abstract

This study purposes to develop a sexual knowledge test to be used for evaluating a sexuality education program for 12-14 year-old adolescents. Depending on the content of the program, multiple choice test items (questions) were prepared. These items were sent to a group of raters in order to be critized in terms of content, language and pyschometric qualities and their feedback was considered. The test was reviewed according to the feedback and administered to 255 adolescents (12-14 years old, grades 6 - 8) in Ankara, attending a state and a private elementray school. Sexual knowledge test, consisting of 50 multiple choice items, seem to be ready to be used to determine the sexual knowledge level of prepared sexuality education program. This test seems to be useful in determining sexual knowledge as well as in evaluating the sexuality education program for 12-14 years adolescents.