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Measuring Teachers’ Beliefs Quantitatively

Criticizing the Use of Likert Scale and Offering a New Approach

Safrudiannur (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXI, 163 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Verlag)
978-3-658-30022-7 (ISBN)

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The use of Likert scale instruments for measuring teachers' beliefs is criticized because of amplifying social desirability, reducing the willingness to make differentiations, and often providing less or no contexts. Those weaknesses may distort teachers' responses to a Likert scale instrument, causing inconsistencies between their responses and their actions. Therefore, the author offers an alternative approach by employing rank-then-rate items and considering students' abilities as one of the factors affecting teachers' beliefs. The results confirm that the offered approach may give a better prediction about teachers' beliefs than does a Likert scale instrument.

Safrudiannur is a researcher and lecturer in the field of mathematics education at the Mulawarman University, Indonesia. From 2015 to 2020, he was a research fellow at the University of Cologne in Germany.

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Erscheinungsdatum	08.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Kölner Beiträge zur Didaktik der Mathematik
Zusatzinfo	XXI, 163 p. 17 illus.
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	254 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
Schlagworte	Beliefs • Likert Scale • Mathematics • Measurement • Problem Solving • Rank-then-Rate • Social Contexts at School • Social Desirability • Students' Abilities • Students‘ Abilities • Teachers • Teaching and learning • The Nature of Mathematics
ISBN-10	3-658-30022-1 / 3658300221
ISBN-13	978-3-658-30022-7 / 9783658300227
Zustand	Neuware