Authors of the text present Polish context of teachers’ professional promotion and teachers’ competencies. The text also has its empirical dimension-a research about teachers’ sense of life quality has been done. T...Authors of the text present Polish context of teachers’ professional promotion and teachers’ competencies. The text also has its empirical dimension-a research about teachers’ sense of life quality has been done. There are teachers’ expressions, collected and quoted during qualitative research. Teachers’ thoughts are concerned about the sense of life quality in the context of working at lower secondary school.展开更多
In this study,issues concerning the design of scales for measuring teacher sense of efficacy(TSE)are first identified with particular attention to the Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale(TSES).Psychometric issues concerni...In this study,issues concerning the design of scales for measuring teacher sense of efficacy(TSE)are first identified with particular attention to the Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale(TSES).Psychometric issues concerning analysis and reporting of TSE data are subsequently identified.Recommendations are offered about all identified issues,and these recommendations are taken into account when obtaining and analyzing TSE data from Chinese mainland preservice and inservice teachers.Exploratory factor analyses yielded a single factor for both samples as well as for four subgroups within the inservice teacher sample.Results also provided insights about scale design as well as the TSES being limited for capturing the breadth of TSE.Suggestions are made for improvements in the assessment of TSE.展开更多
Developing a professional ethics is crucial towards amassing the ranks of high-quality teachers,which contributes to the improvement of national education.This study bases its analysis on the survey of humanistic qual...Developing a professional ethics is crucial towards amassing the ranks of high-quality teachers,which contributes to the improvement of national education.This study bases its analysis on the survey of humanistic qualities of Chinese citizens.3348 teachers at three different levels from 31 provinces,autonomous regions and municipalities of China are investigated into their professional moral conducts in terms of sense of responsibility and initiative.The result shows that the professional moral levels differ distinctly among teachers from universities,junior or senior high schools and primary schools.The results suggest that professional ethics is vulnerable to external factors.It is essential for the construction of teachers’professional ethics to improve their moral culture.展开更多
This study comprises the second stage of a research program in which sense of efficacy for teaching(SET)was investigated in Chinese mainland preservice and inservice teachers(PSTs and ISTs,respectively).Scores on SET ...This study comprises the second stage of a research program in which sense of efficacy for teaching(SET)was investigated in Chinese mainland preservice and inservice teachers(PSTs and ISTs,respectively).Scores on SET were calculated and described,and SET comparisons were made between and within PSTs and ISTs.Relative to PSTs,ISTs had higher SET;within both the PSTs and IST samples there were no gender differences;but among ISTs there were some associations of SET with years of teaching,teacher roles,and whether the schools were categorized as advanced or standard.Tentative comparisons are drawn concerning SET in Chinese and Western contexts,and recommendations are made concerning effective measurement of teacher sense of efficacy in China and elsewhere.展开更多
文摘Authors of the text present Polish context of teachers’ professional promotion and teachers’ competencies. The text also has its empirical dimension-a research about teachers’ sense of life quality has been done. There are teachers’ expressions, collected and quoted during qualitative research. Teachers’ thoughts are concerned about the sense of life quality in the context of working at lower secondary school.
文摘In this study,issues concerning the design of scales for measuring teacher sense of efficacy(TSE)are first identified with particular attention to the Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale(TSES).Psychometric issues concerning analysis and reporting of TSE data are subsequently identified.Recommendations are offered about all identified issues,and these recommendations are taken into account when obtaining and analyzing TSE data from Chinese mainland preservice and inservice teachers.Exploratory factor analyses yielded a single factor for both samples as well as for four subgroups within the inservice teacher sample.Results also provided insights about scale design as well as the TSES being limited for capturing the breadth of TSE.Suggestions are made for improvements in the assessment of TSE.
文摘Developing a professional ethics is crucial towards amassing the ranks of high-quality teachers,which contributes to the improvement of national education.This study bases its analysis on the survey of humanistic qualities of Chinese citizens.3348 teachers at three different levels from 31 provinces,autonomous regions and municipalities of China are investigated into their professional moral conducts in terms of sense of responsibility and initiative.The result shows that the professional moral levels differ distinctly among teachers from universities,junior or senior high schools and primary schools.The results suggest that professional ethics is vulnerable to external factors.It is essential for the construction of teachers’professional ethics to improve their moral culture.
文摘This study comprises the second stage of a research program in which sense of efficacy for teaching(SET)was investigated in Chinese mainland preservice and inservice teachers(PSTs and ISTs,respectively).Scores on SET were calculated and described,and SET comparisons were made between and within PSTs and ISTs.Relative to PSTs,ISTs had higher SET;within both the PSTs and IST samples there were no gender differences;but among ISTs there were some associations of SET with years of teaching,teacher roles,and whether the schools were categorized as advanced or standard.Tentative comparisons are drawn concerning SET in Chinese and Western contexts,and recommendations are made concerning effective measurement of teacher sense of efficacy in China and elsewhere.
