DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE PRESCHOOL TEACHERS´ BELIEFS IN INQUIRY-BASED ACTIVITIES
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://oaji.net/articles/2019/987-1564686270.pdf" target="_blank" >http://oaji.net/articles/2019/987-1564686270.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/jbse/19.18.558" target="_blank" >10.33225/jbse/19.18.558</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE PRESCHOOL TEACHERS´ BELIEFS IN INQUIRY-BASED ACTIVITIES
Original language description
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 obtained in subsamples of respondents of varied years of practice and education, thus verifying a solid internal consistency of the instrument. Confirmatory factor analysis proved a theoretical model with the three subscales with adequate model fit indices. Overall, DPBA possesses sound psychometric properties when used with Czech preschool teachers.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Baltic Science Education
ISSN
1648-3898
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
18
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
LT - LITHUANIA
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
558-568
UT code for WoS article
000479305300007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85071112117