Adaptation of the Global Academic Performance Scale: Reliability and Validity Study

Abstract

Today, with the skills that cannot be imitated by others the person whogains competitive advantage in the organization contributes to the organizationalgoals. In this way, the good performance of the employees provides reputation,prestige, brand value, awareness, quality, effectiveness, efficiency andprofitability. Therefore, it is important to integrate the knowledge, experience,talent and motivation level of an academic staff with the university objectives towhich it is connected and to increase the quality of education. In this context, thisresearch was carried out to adapt the Global Academic Performance Scaledeveloped by Abubakar et al. (2018) into Turkish, to test its validity andreliability, and to measure the academic perceptions of academic staff on globalacademic performance. In this research, which is an empirical research, surveytechnique was used as a data collection tool. Academic staff working in Faculty ofSport Sciences at universities constitute of the population of the research. In thiscontext, data from 198 samples determined by convenience sampling methodwere collected. Descriptive statistics, independent groups t-test, and explanatoryand 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 reliablemeasurement tool which can be used for determining the academic performanceperceptions of the employees in different samples and practices in Turkey.