The Social Skills Improvement System- Rating Scale (3-5 Age Preschool Version) Teacher Form: Validity and Reliability Study

In this study, it is aimed to conduct the validity and reliability study of the Social Skills Improvement System- Rating Scale (3-5 age preschool version) teacher form.The sample of the research consists of teachers (n = 28)of 305 childrenin the 3-5 year old group who continued to different pre-school education institutions.Content validity, confirmatory factor analysis, test retest reliability and internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach alpha) were calculated in the analysis of the data.Five experts were consulted for the content validity and 76 items on the scale were decided by the experts to remain on the scale.As a result of confirmatory factor analysis, it was determined that 76 items and 12 factorial structure of the scale generally comply with the collected data.Internal consistency coefficients of the scale change between .70 and .86.These results showed thatThe Social Skills Improvement System- Rating Scale (3-5 age preschool version) Teacher Forma reliable and valid tool for measuring social skills of children in Turkey.