Developing and Validating the Questionnaire for Assessing Teaching Quality of Teachers | ||
| فصلنامه علمی پژوهش در یادگیری آموزشگاهی و مجازی | ||
| Volume 13, Issue 2 - Serial Number 49, July 2025, Pages 89-102 PDF (1.11 M) | ||
| Document Type: Research | ||
| DOI: 10.30473/etl.2025.72992.4307 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Heshmatollah Mahmodi1; Nasrolah Erfani* 2; Farhad Jomerhri3; Beheshte Niusha4 | ||
| 1Ph.D. Student, Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran. | ||
| 2Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. | ||
| 3Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Allameh Tabatabaii University, Tehran, Iran. | ||
| 4Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Teaching quality plays an essential role in the quality of learning, and the knowledge and skills learned by learners are rrefutably related to their learning quality. The present research conducted to develop a questionnaire for Assessing Teaching Quality Teachers (QATQT) and to measure its validity and reliability. To reach the goal of the study, 422 teachers from primary schools in Hamadan Province selected and they completed questionnaires. The validity of the questionnaire analyzed using factor analysis and six factors extracted. These factors named in according with the theoretical foundations of the research and the content of the questions on the factors under the heading of teaching methods, create behavioral learning, Achieving the goal of teaching, Create cognitive learning, the acquisition of practical skills and the use of information technology. The reliability of the questionnaire estimated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Based on the results, the alpha coefficients of the 6 factors are satisfactory (Excluding the factor of acquiring practical skills factor of 0.555). The smallest alpha coefficient belongs to the factor of acquiring practical skills is equal to 0.555 with 3 questions and the largest alpha coefficient belongs to the teaching methods is 0.778 with 5 questions. The overall reliability of the questionnaire was 0.91, which is significant. According to the results of this study, this questionnaire has the necessary conditions for usE in order to assess the quality of teachers' teaching. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Measurement; Teachers; Elementary; Teaching Quality | ||
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