Introduction Khutbah is one of the essential means of non-formal religious education and has an important place in enlightening people on religious and worldly issues. In religious literature, the khutbah is the orator's speech, who praises Allah, blessings on the Prophet, preaching and advice to the believers on the pulpit in Friday and Eid prayers. Today, the preparation of the khutbah, its presentation, the selection of the topics of the khutbah, and the training of the personnel who will read the khutbah are carried out by the relevant units of the Presidency of Religious Affairs. Every education has certain gains. Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor taxonomies are used to classify educational attainments. Khutbahs, an essential element of non-formal religious education, also have improvements. The achievements of the khutbah are mostly related to the cognitive and affective fields. In the literature, there are many studies on the determination of the topics of the khutbah, the analysis of the texts of the khutbah, and the preparation and presentation of the khutbah. In addition, few quantitative and qualitative studies examine Khutbah's achievements. However, there needs to be a scale study among the quantitative research methods related to the achievements of the khutbah. Methods and Techniques The research aims to develop a scale for the khutbah's access level to the goals of non-formal religious education. A descriptive design was preferred in the study. In the scale development process, literature review, creating items, taking expert opinions, language and content validity, item scoring, data collection and analysis, evaluation, and reporting of analysis results were followed. A 5-point Likert-type rating scale was used in the scale. No reverse items were used in the scale. In the study, the data were obtained by reaching 655 participants in the electronic environment, with the snowball sampling method, in a distribution to 7 regions throughout Turkey. "SPSS 23.00 package program" was used for exploratory factor analysis, and "AMOS 23.00 statistical package program" was used for confirmatory factor analysis. Findings In the exploratory factor analysis, the KMO was .96, and the Bartlett Test of Sphericity chi(2) value was calculated as 12347,274 (p=.000). The sample size of the KMO value of the scale was found to be excellent, and the Bartlett Sphericity Test results were significant. Two factors in the scale have an eigenvalue greater than 1. When the correlations between the sub-dimensions of the scale are examined, it is seen that there is no multicollinearity problem, and there are significant relations between the sub-dimensions of the scale. The fit indices obtained as a result of confirmatory factor analysis were examined. The findings are as follows: CMIN/Sd=3,219; AGFI=.869; GFI=.899; NFI=.937; CFI=.955; IFI=.955; TLI=.947 and RMSEA=.067. According to this, it was seen that all of the values were in good agreement. The confirmatory factor analysis also examined the modification indices of the data set. It was observed that there was a hidden relationship in some of the items within the factors themselves. For example, items 12 and 13 are under the same factor. Item 12: I get useful information about the solution to current religious issues. Item 13: I get useful information about the solution to worldly problems. Since some worldly issues also have a religious aspect, it is not okay to make changes here. Relationships between other items also have their counterparts in the literature. Therefore, it was decided that the scale also met the necessary conditions in this aspect. A scale consisting of 22 items and two dimensions (Acquiring Religious Knowledge and Conversion to Attitude and Behavior) was developed with the study. The Cronbach's alpha internal consistency coefficient of the scale is.98, indicating that the items are consistent. In the item score evaluation, an item can get a maximum of 5 points and a minimum of 1 point. Therefore, the highest score that can be obtained from the 22-item scale (22x5=110) is 110, and the lowest score (22x1=22) is 22. Result As a result, "The Level of Access to Non-Formal Religious Education Goals of Khutbah," whose validity and reliability have been proven, has been developed. It is thought that the scale obtained as a result of the study will contribute to the determination of the achievements of the mosque community from the khutbahs and to the measurement tools to be developed for the studies to be done in this direction. It is envisaged that the data obtained from the scale can also be used in research on the relationship between demographic characteristics and khutbah achievements.
