Evaluation of the Learning to Teach for Social Justice–Beliefs Scale in an Australian context

Autor: Alexandra McCormick, Robert J. Tierney, Anthony Loughland, Rose Amazan, Luke K. Fryer, Paul Ginns
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Higher Education Research & Development. 34:311-323
ISSN: 1469-8366
0729-4360
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2014.956701
Popis: A concern for social justice pervades the espoused curriculum of many pre-service teaching programmes, but the extent to which that curriculum influences the beliefs students hold is an open question. With the goal of developing an instrument suitable for evaluating such beliefs at the degree programme level, the present study analysed responses to the Learning to Teach for Social Justice–Beliefs (LTSJ–B) Scale (Enterline, S., Cochran-Smith, M., Ludlow, J.H., & Mitescu, E. (2008). Learning to teach for social justice: Measuring change in the beliefs of teacher candidates. The New Educator, 4, 267–290. doi:10.1080/15476880802430361) from 304 Australian pre-service teachers. Exploratory factor analysis and Rasch analysis both indicated a two-factor structure, driven by a methodological artefact of item valence. We conclude from these findings that a short, five-item version of the LTSJ–B Scale would suitably balance psychometric and pragmatic considerations, in the broader context of working within an insti...
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