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Welter, Virginia Deborah Elaine
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Dawborn-Gundlach, Merryn
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Großmann, Leroy
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Krell, Moritz
dc.date.accessioned
2024-04-11T11:40:46Z
dc.date.available
2024-04-11T11:40:46Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/43153
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-42869
dc.description.abstract
Besides teachers' professional knowledge, their self-efficacy is a crucial aspect in promoting students' scientific reasoning (SR). However, because no measurement instrument has yet been published that specifically refers to self-efficacy beliefs regarding the task of teaching SR, we adapted the Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (STEBI) accordingly, resulting in the Teaching Scientific Reasoning Efficacy Beliefs Instrument (TSR-EBI). While the conceptual framework of the TSR-EBI is comparable to that of the STEBI in general terms, it goes beyond it in terms of specificity, acknowledging the fact that teaching SR requires very specific knowledge and skills that are not necessarily needed to the same extent for promoting other competencies in science education. To evaluate the TSR-EBI's psychometric quality, we conducted two rounds of validation. Both samples (N1 = 114; N2 = 74) consisted of pre-service teachers enrolled in university master's programs in Germany. The collected data were analyzed by applying Rasch analysis and known-group comparisons. In the course of an analysis of the TSR-EBI's internal structure, we found a 3-category scale to be superior to a 5-category structure. The person and item reliability of the scale proved to be satisfactory. Furthermore, during the second round of validation, it became clear that the results previously found for the 3-category scale were generally replicable across a new (but comparable) sample, which clearly supports the TSR-EBI's psychometric quality. Moreover, in terms of test-criterion relationships, the scale was also able to discriminate between groups that are assumed to have different levels of self-efficacy regarding teaching SR. Nonetheless, some findings also suggest that the scale might benefit from having the selection of individual items reconsidered (despite acceptable item fit statistics). On balance, however, we believe that the TSR-EBI has the potential to provide valuable insights in future studies regarding factors that influence teachers' self-efficacy, such as their professional experiences, prior training, or perceived barriers to effective teaching.
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22 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
self-efficacy
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scientific reasoning
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rating scale
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Rasch measurement theory
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item response theory
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dc.subject.ddc
100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie
dc.title
Adapting a self-efficacy scale to the task of teaching scientific reasoning: collecting evidence for its psychometric quality using Rasch measurement
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
1339615
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1339615
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Frontiers in Psychology
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
15
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1339615
refubium.affiliation
Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie
refubium.affiliation.other
Institut für Biologie / Didaktik der Biologie
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1664-1078
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