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Development of an instrument to measure preschool teachers´beliefs in inquiry-based activities
Title Development of an instrument to measure preschool teachers´beliefs in inquiry-based activities Author info Peter Gavora, Adriana Wiegerová Author Gavora Peter (50%)
Co-authors Wiegerová Adriana (50%)
Source document Journal of Baltic Science Education. Vol. 18, no. 4 (2019), pp. 558-568. - Šiauliai : Scientia Socialis, 2019 Note This research was supported by a grant from the Development of Organisation´s Research Excellence (RVO), Tomas Bata University. Keywords bádateľské aktivity - inquiry-based activities analysis of development učitelia materských škôl - predškolskí učitelia - preschool teachers - kindergarten teachers Form. Descr. články - journal articles Language English Country Lithuania Annotation Professional beliefs is an important factor that influences activities that preschool teachers organize and manage in the classroom. In order to determine how strong these beliefs are, valid and reliable instruments must be at disposal. This research aimed to develop and validate DPBA, an instrument designed to measure teachers' beliefs toward the use of inquiry-based activities in preschool classes. A sample of 1,004 Czech preschool teachers was used to obtain the validation data. From the initial set of 40 items, a final version of DPBA with 22 items was created in a series of analyses. Principal component and maximum likelihood methods with Varimax rotation were used to extract an appropriate scale structure. DPBA is composed of three subscales, Benefits (12 items), Teacher competence (6 items) and Concerns (4 items), which have reliabilities of .906;.847 and .729, respectively. The overall reliability of the instrument is .883. Consistently high reliability coefficients were obtain URL Link do databázy Scopus Link na plný text Public work category ADM No. of Archival Copy E4180 Catal.org. BB301 - Univerzitná knižnica Univerzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici Database xpca - PUBLIKAČNÁ ČINNOSŤ References PERIODIKÁ-Súborný záznam periodika 
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