Adaptation of the global academic performance scale: Reliability and validity study

Abstract

Today, with the skills that cannot be imitated by others the person who gains competitive advantage in the organization contributes to the organizational goals. In this way, the good performance of the employees provides reputation, prestige, brand value, awareness, quality, effectiveness, efficiency and profitability. Therefore, it is important to integrate the knowledge, experience, talent and motivation level of an academic staff with the university objectives to which it is connected and to increase the quality of education. In this context, this research was carried out to adapt the Global Academic Performance Scale developed by Abubakar et al. (2018) into Turkish, to test its validity and reliability, and to measure the academic perceptions of academic staff on global academic performance. In this research, which is an empirical research, survey technique was used as a data collection tool. Academic staff working in Faculty of Sport Sciences at universities constitute of the population of the research. In this context, data from 198 samples determined by convenience sampling method were collected. Descriptive statistics, independent groups t-test, and explanatory and confirmatory factor analyzes were used in the analysis of the data. As a result, it can be stated that the Global Academic Performance Scale is a valid and reliable measurement tool which can be used for determining the academic performance perceptions of the employees in different samples and practices in Turkey.