Self-Confidence Scale for Interdisciplinary Teaching/Ljestvica samopouzdanja za interdisciplinarno poučavanje

Dilek Sultan Acarlı, Sema Çıldır

Abstract


Abstract
The importance of interdisciplinary education is a well-known fact in today’s world.
However, do educators feel sufficiently prepared to implement such an approach?
Identifying this aspect among pre-service science teachers (PSTs), who are the educators
of the future, will be an important step in terms of improvement efforts. Building upon
this premise, the research aims to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool for
assessing the self-confidence of pre-service teachers in Elementary Science, Biology,
Physics, and Chemistry Education Programs. In order to determine the scale construct
validity, a two-stage process was undertaken. In the first stage, an exploratory
factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with a sample comprising 300 pre-service
teachers. Subsequently, in the second stage, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was
performed using data collected from 174 pre-service teachers. The findings indicated
that the psychometric properties of the Self-Confidence Scale for Interdisciplinary
Teaching (SCSIT) were robust and satisfactory for measuring confidence levels in
interdisciplinary teaching. Consequently, a valid and reliable assessment tool, which
can be used in research on interdisciplinary teaching, was introduced to the literature.
Key words: interdisciplinary teaching; pre-service teachers; science education; self
confidence.

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Sažetak
Važnost interdisciplinarnoga obrazovanja dobro je poznata činjenica u današnjem
svijetu. Međutim, osjećaju li se edukatori dovoljno pripremljenima za takav pristup u
praksi? Prepoznavanje ovoga aspekta među budućim učiteljima prirodnih znanosti,
koji su odgajatelji budućnosti, bit će važan korak u smislu poduzimanja napora za
poboljšanjem. Polazeći od ove pretpostavke, cilj je istraživanja razviti valjan i pouzdan
mjerni alat za procjenu samopouzdanja budućih učitelja u obrazovnim programima
za osnove znanosti, biologiju, fiziku i kemiju. Kako bi se odredila konstruktivna
valjanost ljestvice proveden je proces u dvjema fazama. U prvoj fazi izvršena je
eksploratorna faktorska analiza (exploratory factor analysis; EFA) na uzorku od
300 budućih učitelja, a u drugoj konfirmatorna faktorska analiza (confirmatory
factor analysis; CFA) zasnovana na podatcima prikupljenim od 174 buduća učitelja.
Rezultati su pokazali da su psihometrijske karakteristike korištene ljestvice (Self
Confidence Scale for Interdisciplinary Teaching; SCSIT) dostatne i zadovoljavajuće
za mjerenje razina samopouzdanja budućih učitelja u interdisciplinarnoj nastavi. U
literaturu je stoga uveden valjan i pouzdan alat za vrednovanje, koji se može koristiti
u istraživanjima o interdisciplinarnoj nastavi.
Ključne riječi: budući učitelji; interdisciplinarna nastava; nastava prirodnih znanosti;
samopouzdanje.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v26i3.5448

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