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32nd EECERA Annual Conference Developing Sustainable Early Childhood Education Systems: Comparisons, Contexts and the Cognoscenti , Brighton, England, 3 - 06 September 2024, pp.166
lt aims to reveal the validity and reliability of The HTKS Task revised and strengthened version for measuring the
behavioral self-regulation (BSR) skills of Turkish children. HTKS was developed by Cameron Ponitz et al. (2009).
Sezgin & Demiriz (2015) adapted it in Turkish. It has gained an important place in studies on the assessment of selfregulation
in the national literature. HTKS’s limitations were eliminated in the studies in which HTKS-R was used.
HTKS-R was developed by McClelland et al. (2021). The theoretical framework of the task is based on the studies of
Miyake et al. (2000) and Garon et al. (2008) on executive function skills. 308 preschool children were attended in this
survey model study. After translation-and-back translation procedures, Turkish HTKS-R was evaluated by field
experts, and the task items were found to be consistent. Confirmatory factor, descriptive, reliability and criterion
validity analyses were conducted on the data. After obtaining permission from the developers for the scale
adaptation process, the research protocol was approved by the authors' university Human Sciences Ethics
Committee. The ethical rules of confidentiality, information, autonomy and voluntary participation were followed.
Turkish HTKS-R was valid and reliable for assessing children's BSR skills. The adaptation of an up-to-date
measurement tool to the national literature will contribute to both studies conducted in Turkish culture and
intercultural studies. Further research can be carried out to find out factors associated with the BSR skills of children.
Turkish HTKS-R data can serve to design early intervention programs which support children's BSR skills.