Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Teachers’ Professional Agency during Curriculum Reform and Its Underlying Structure

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an effective instrument to measure teachers’ professional agency and its underlying factors. Of major concern was the appropriateness of the items and the underlying structure of teacher agency. One hundred and fourteen (N = 114) teachers from th...

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Main Authors:	Mohamed, Lawsha, Tunku Ahmad, Tunku Badariah
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Language:	English
Published:	IIUM Press 2018
Subjects:	L Education (General)
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spelling	iium-789832020-02-25T02:31:58Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/78983/ Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Teachers’ Professional Agency during Curriculum Reform and Its Underlying Structure Mohamed, Lawsha Tunku Ahmad, Tunku Badariah L Education (General) The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an effective instrument to measure teachers’ professional agency and its underlying factors. Of major concern was the appropriateness of the items and the underlying structure of teacher agency. One hundred and fourteen (N = 114) teachers from three primary schools in the Maldives filled out a teacher agency questionnaire. The validity and reliability of the instrument were tested using exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis. Ninety-four items were developed in the initial item pool based on Priestley et al.'s (2015) ecological model of teachers’ professional agency. An exploratory factor analysis extracted nine factors from the 94-item instrument on teacher agency, which altogether explained 76.37% of the variance in the pattern of relationships among the items. All the nine factors had high reliabilities with Cronbach’s alphas greater than .791. Fifty-three items remained in the final questionnaire after deleting items with cross-loadings on multiple factors and loadings below .50. Hence, this study validated a nine-factor structure that represented the underlying dimensions of teachers' professional agency. This instrument could be used to gain a better understanding of the factors influencing teachers’ professional agency during a curriculum reform. IIUM Press 2018-06-30 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78983/1/IJES%202018_Teacher%20Agency.pdf Mohamed, Lawsha and Tunku Ahmad, Tunku Badariah (2018) Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Teachers’ Professional Agency during Curriculum Reform and Its Underlying Structure. IIUM JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, 6 (2). 72 -88. ISSN 2289-8085 https://journals.iium.edu.my/ijes/index.php/iejs
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description	The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an effective instrument to measure teachers’ professional agency and its underlying factors. Of major concern was the appropriateness of the items and the underlying structure of teacher agency. One hundred and fourteen (N = 114) teachers from three primary schools in the Maldives filled out a teacher agency questionnaire. The validity and reliability of the instrument were tested using exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis. Ninety-four items were developed in the initial item pool based on Priestley et al.'s (2015) ecological model of teachers’ professional agency. An exploratory factor analysis extracted nine factors from the 94-item instrument on teacher agency, which altogether explained 76.37% of the variance in the pattern of relationships among the items. All the nine factors had high reliabilities with Cronbach’s alphas greater than .791. Fifty-three items remained in the final questionnaire after deleting items with cross-loadings on multiple factors and loadings below .50. Hence, this study validated a nine-factor structure that represented the underlying dimensions of teachers' professional agency. This instrument could be used to gain a better understanding of the factors influencing teachers’ professional agency during a curriculum reform.
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title	Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Teachers’ Professional Agency during Curriculum Reform and Its Underlying Structure
title_short	Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Teachers’ Professional Agency during Curriculum Reform and Its Underlying Structure
title_full	Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Teachers’ Professional Agency during Curriculum Reform and Its Underlying Structure
title_fullStr	Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Teachers’ Professional Agency during Curriculum Reform and Its Underlying Structure
title_full_unstemmed	Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Teachers’ Professional Agency during Curriculum Reform and Its Underlying Structure
title_sort	development and validation of an instrument to measure teachers’ professional agency during curriculum reform and its underlying structure
publisher	IIUM Press
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Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Teachers’ Professional Agency during Curriculum Reform and Its Underlying Structure

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