@article{2017,title={DO WE HAVE A FREE WILL? (DEVELOPING A FREE WILL SCALE AND RELATIONSHIP OF FREE WILL DEVELOPMENT WITH DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES)},abstractNode={In this research, Free Will Levels of high school students were investigated. For that purpose, Free Will Scale (FWS) was primarily developed, and validity and reliability studies were carried out. Subsequently, free will levels of the high school students were investigated according to the variables of gender, age, number of people resident in the house, number of siblings, educational status of mother, educational status of father, profession of mother, profession of father, having a study room in the house or not, status of following up a daily newspaper, and status of following up a magazine. Content validity and construct validity of the scale were also investigated. Opinions of 10 specialists were asked for the content validity. According to the feedback of the specialists, the pool with 62 items was turned into the draft scale including 44 items. The free will scale with 44 items was performed to a student group including 238 participants, necessary feedbacks from the students were received, and 18-item free will scale was created. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were successively employed for the construct validity of the free will scale. When item total correlations of the scale were investigated, total correlation values of the items in internal free will sub-dimension of the scale were noticed to vary between.36 and.70, and the correlation values of the items in external free will sub-dimension were determined to vary between .47 and .64. Model fit of the free will scale was investigated with first order CFA. Chi-square fit value (?2=261,91, Sd=134, p=.00) for the factor structure of the free will scale including 18 items and two sub-dimensions was found to be significant, and ?2/df value related to model fit was determined as 1.95. Internal consistency analysis and split-half reliability analysis were performed to determine the reliability of the Free Will Scale.},author={Yener ÖZEN},year={2017},journal={The Journal of International Educational Sciences}}