Abstract
The study aims to develop the Teacher Belief Scale. The subjects were 533 junior high school teachers in Kaohsiung, receiving the Teacher Belief Scale from March to June in 2009. There were four subscales in the scale, including the Teacher Role Identification Subscale, the Creative Teaching Behavior Subscale, the Student-centered Education Subscale, and the Multiple Learning Subscale. The results showed (1) Cronbach¡¦s £\ for the subscales ranged from .629 to .790, with an overall Cronbach¡¦s £\ of .810; (2) the male teachers got higher scores than the females in the Creative Teaching Behavior Subscale; (3) teachers who graduated from general universities got higher scores than those from normal universities in the Creative Teaching Behavior Subscale; (4) teachers with administrative position got higher scores than homeroom teachers and teachers with other service in overall Teacher Belief Scale; (5) teachers with administrative position got higher scores than homeroom teachers and teachers with other service in the Teacher Role Identification Subscale; (6) in the Creative Teaching Behavior subscale, teachers with administrative position got higher scores than homeroom teachers and full-time teachers; (7) in teaching experience, analyzed through Scheffe post-hoc comparison, only scores of teachers with 1-4 year experience were significantly higher than those of teachers with 5-9 year experience in the Student-centered Education Subscale; (8) there were no significant difference in teachers¡¦ teaching subjects analyzed through Scheffe post-hoc comparison.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0819109-192406 |
Date | 19 August 2009 |
Creators | Shieh, Ping-hung |
Contributors | Su-Hsiang Chung, Bai-lu Wu, Ying-yao Zheng |
Publisher | NSYSU |
Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
Language | Cholon |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0819109-192406 |
Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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