Construction and validation of next generation teacher educator competency scale [NGTECS]

Title

Construction and validation of next generation teacher educator competency scale [NGTECS]

Creator

Prakasha G.S.

Description

The article presented here is a part of the major research project conducted in India from 2016 through 2020. Teacher education in India in the last six decades underwent many reforms in terms of policies, assessment, field experience patterns, and training pedagogy. Teacher educators invariably implemented all the suggested changes. However, it lacked the rigour in implementation. At the same time with the advancement of technology, the student population is native to technology and had newer attitudes towards learning. Researcher felt that, the Teacher educators competencies are to be revisited and may come up with a new list of competencies which are helpful to the next generation. It is with this intent this major research project was planned. The purpose of the project was to come up with the list of competencies for teacher educators which are helpful for training the next generation teacher trainees and to measure those competencies. Therefore, the study resorted to adopt exploratory research design. This article explains the step wise procedure on construction of next generation teacher educator competency scale. It also explains the procedures of validity and reliability established for the scale. The study brought out a Likert type of scale to measure next generation teacher educator competency and has simple administration procedures. The scale was found to be highly reliable based on Cronbach's alpha internal consistency coefficient. Though the study is exploratory in nature, yet confirmatory factor analysis was carried out and is found to be in agreement with the evolved factors. The scale may be used to measure the extent to which the next generation teacher educator competencies are possessed by a teacher educator. Copyright 2020 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License

Source

Universal Journal of Educational Research, Vol-8, No. 8, pp. 3585-3591.

Date

2020-01-01

Publisher

Horizon Research Publishing

Subject

Competency; Next-generation; Teacher Educator

Coverage

Prakasha G.S., School of Education, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, 560029, India

Rights

All Open Access; Gold Open Access

Relation

ISSN: 23323205

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.13189/ujer.2020.080835

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