شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

This study aimed at assessing psychometric characteristics of the student teacher relationship scale (STRS) of the age group (4-8) years, translated into Arabic, and validated by a panel of experts. Accordingly, some items were modified to fit in the Jordanian environment. A random cluster sample of 110 teachers was selected with a percentage of (12.5%) of the study population. Each teacher expressed her relationship with four children selected by the simple random method from the teacher's class, two males and two females. Thus, the study sample consisted of (438) children after excluding two responses. The Factor analysis results unveiled 3 factors that interpreted a percentage of (70.087%) of the whole variance. Reliability has been verified using test-retest method where (14) teachers were randomly selected from the study population. Each teacher expressed her relationship with four children so that the children sample became 56 students (males and females). Using the Test-retest method، the internal consistency (Cronbach Alpha) and (McDonald's Omega) procedures, the results unveiled that reliability coefficients for (STRS) were (0.90) via the test-retest method and (0.83-0.89) for the dimensions, (0.86) via the internal consistency method (Cronbach Alpha) and (0.89-0.96) for the dimensions, while the MacDonald Omega for the whole scale was (0.90), and (0.90 to 0.96) for the dimensions. (Published abstract)