A look at factors affecting attitudes

ISBN-13: 9783659104039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 128 str.

Iris Lee

Opis

Unlike taking the summated scores of the survey items onto the Likert scale as in many other studies, this study adopted the estimation of teachers latent attitudinal traits via the RateFOLD (Luo & Andrich, 1999) program. Factor analysis thereafter revealed first three factors that contributed to some 67% of the total variance. Teachers subject matter knowledge was found to be the most important factor. Implications from this study were also discussed for the teachers, schools and for national recruitment.

O autorze

Dr Iris Lee works with masters students in Research methods and educational assessment. Besides coordinating practicum at her academic group level, she tutors school middle managers at curriculum projects. Her interest lies with making research practical to educators, science education, educational assessment and measurement.