Measuring Thinking Styles of Pre-Service and Early Career Teachers: Validation of a Revised Inventory

The early phase is the decisive period for the teachers' career. Intellectual styles (particularly thinking styles) play a vital role in teachers' professional development. With the purpose of measuring thinking styles of teachers at the early phase, this study was designed to validate a r...

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Published inInternational journal of educational methodology Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 421 - 432
Main Authors Li, Zheng, Li, Bing
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Eurasian Society of Educational Research 2023
Subjects
Beginning Teachers
Cognitive Style
Elementary School Teachers
Foreign Countries
High School Teachers
Junior High School Teachers
Measures (Individuals)
Preservice Teachers
Problem Solving
Test Reliability
Test Validity
Thinking Skills
Young Adults
China
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Summary:The early phase is the decisive period for the teachers' career. Intellectual styles (particularly thinking styles) play a vital role in teachers' professional development. With the purpose of measuring thinking styles of teachers at the early phase, this study was designed to validate a revised inventory of thinking styles (TSI-R2) for pre-service and early career teachers. A sample of preservice teachers (n = 248) were invited to join the pilot study and a sample of teachers with one year work experience (n = 252) participated in the main study. Exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and reliability analysis were performed. The results suggested that with slight modification, TSI-R2 was a reliable and valid instrument to measure thinking styles of pre-service teachers and early career teachers, which has some implications to enhancing teacher education and development.
ISSN:2469-9632
2469-9632
DOI:10.12973/ijem.7.3.421