The role of teachers is of great importance in character education. Because, like other educational activities, character education is carried out by teachers. The aim of this study is to develop a scale that provides valid and reliable measurements by determining the character education competencies of preschool teachers who will provide character education in the early childhood education period and their beliefs about these competencies, and to introduce it into the literature. In determining the sample of the study, it aimed to reach at least 233 preschool teachers by calculating the sample within the 95% confidence interval and 313 preschool teachers were reached in the study. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed to determine the construct validity of the measurement tool used within the scope of the study. The form of the scale adapted to preschool teachers consists of 21 items and two subscales. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to determine the construct validity and goodness of fit indices of the two-factor structure of the scale. Before applying the suggested modification, the obtained fit indices are [CMIN/DF=2.014 (p=,000); GFI= 0.900; RMSEA=0.057; SRMR= 0.0554; CFI= 0.881]. Cronbach Alpha coefficients have been determined .796 for Personal Teaching Efficacy (PTE), .723 for General Teaching Efficacy (GTQ), and .832 for the total scale. According to these results, it can be said that the scale is a scale that provides reliable measurements at both the factor level and in general.

Character, efficacy, preschool teacher, validity, reliability