The Writing Dispositions ScaleIn th

The Writing Dispositions Scale
In this study, “the Writing Dispositions Scale”, developed by Piazza & Siebert (2008) and adapted
into Turkish by Ýþeri & Ünal (2010) was used in order to collect data to answer the research
questions. The scale consists of 21 items with a five-likert type. The Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient
of the scale was calculated as .89. The higher the total score on the scale, the higher the level of
writing dispositions of students.
Data Analysis
The Pearson moment’s correlation coefficient analysis was used to determine the correlation
between variables and the regression analysis to determine the prediction level of students’ reading
attitudes for their writing dispositions.
FINDINGS
In this part of the research, the correlation between students’ reading attitudes and their writing
dispositions and the prediction level of students’ reading attitudes for students’ writing dispositions
were presented. Thus, the first sub-question of the research was “Is there a significant correlation
between students’ reading attitudes and writing dispositions?” In order to answer this sub-question,
the correlation coefficient analysis was conducted in the research. For this purpose, the correlation
between students’ reading attitudes and their writing dispositions is presented in Table 1 below.