The Turkish Adaptation Study of Global Warming Questionnaire

Abstract

Nowadays, environmental problems have become the most important problems that threaten the lives of human beings. Global warming comes at the beginning of the most important global problems that threaten the lives of human beings increasing day by day. It is very important to determine whether the Pre-service Elementary Teachers who will educate conscious and sensitive individuals to global warming as with every subject have enough equipment about global warming or not. The purpose of this study is to find out the sub-dimensions of the questionnaire including items on global warming used by Boyes, Stainsstreet and Yongling (2008) by adapting into Turkish. This questionnaire was applied to 225 Pre-service Elementary Teachers studying in Elementary Maths, Elementary Science, Primary Teaching, Pre-school and Social Sciences Education in Primary Education Department, Faculty of Education, Ondokuz Mayis University. The obtained data were examined with factor analysis using SPSS package programme. 17 items for the prevention of global warming have been identified as a single dimension. With this research, 17-items questionnaire adapted into Turkish is important to determine the Pre-service Elementary Teachers' perceptions and thoughts for preventing global warming. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.