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