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Beliefs and needs of academic teachers: a latent class analysis
Statistical Methods & Applications ( IF 1 ) Pub Date : 2019-10-24 , DOI: 10.1007/s10260-019-00495-5
Silvia Bacci , Bruno Bertaccini , Alessandra Petrucci

In the last few years, academic guidance services of the Italian universities have been increasingly involved in planning and organising training courses for academic teachers to improve the quality of teaching. In such a context, it is important to collect information on the teachers’ opinions about their belief on traditional and innovative approaches to teaching and learning evaluation as well as on their need of support to take effective teaching practices. In this contribution we aim at studying the structure of academic teachers’ population of an Italian university in order to detect groups of teachers that are homogenous in terms of beliefs and needs. As beliefs and needs may be conceptualised in terms of an unobservable (or latent) variable composed of multiple traits related with different aspects of beliefs and needs (e.g., passion for teaching, beliefs about teaching methods, ...), the proposed analysis is based on a multidimensional Latent Class Item Response Theory model. This type of model allows us to classify teachers in latent classes with respect to their beliefs and needs in the academic didactic activities. Moreover, it also allows us to identify specific aspects of teaching with respect to which academic teachers tend to disagree/agree, and to relate beliefs and needs of teachers with their individual characteristics. The study involves a sample of academic teachers coming from the University of Florence (IT) that took part in a survey based on a new questionnaire composed of Likert-type items concerning beliefs and needs on several aspects of teaching.



中文翻译:

学术教师的信念和需求:潜在的课堂分析

在过去的几年中,意大利大学的学术指导服务越来越多地参与计划和组织学术教师培训课程,以提高教学质量。在这种情况下,重要的是要收集有关教师意见的信息,这些意见包括教师对传统和创新的教学评估方法的信念以及他们对采取有效教学实践的支持需求的看法。在这项贡献中,我们旨在研究意大利大学学术教师人口的结构,以便发现在信仰和需求方面均相同的教师群体。由于信念和需求可以用无法观察到的(或潜在的)变量来概念化,该变量由与信念和需求的不同方面相关的多个特征组成(例如,对教学的热情,对教学方法的信念...),建议的分析基于多维潜在类项目反应理论模型。这种类型的模型使我们可以根据潜在的教师在学术教学活动中的信念和需求对他们进行分类。此外,它还使我们能够确定教学中教师会不同意/同意的特定方面,并将教师的信念和需求与其个人特征联系起来。这项研究包括来自佛罗伦萨大学(IT)的一批学术教师的样本,该样本基于一项新的调查表参与了一项调查,该调查表由李克特型项目组成,涉及关于教学几个方面的信念和需求。提出的分析基于多维潜在类项目响应理论模型。这种类型的模型使我们能够根据潜在的教师在教学活动中的信念和需求对他们进行分类。此外,它还使我们能够确定教学中教师会不同意/同意的特定方面,并将教师的信念和需求与其个人特征联系起来。这项研究包括来自佛罗伦萨大学(IT)的一批学术教师的样本,该样本基于一项新的问卷调查进行了调查,该问卷由李克特型项目构成,涉及在教学的各个方面的信念和需求。所提出的分析基于多维潜在类项目响应理论模型。这种类型的模型使我们能够根据潜在的教师在学术教学活动中的信念和需求对他们进行分类。此外,它还使我们能够确定教学中教师会不同意/同意的特定方面,并将教师的信念和需求与其个人特征联系起来。这项研究包括来自佛罗伦萨大学(IT)的一批学术教师的样本,该样本基于一项新的问卷调查进行了调查,该问卷由李克特型项目构成,涉及在教学的各个方面的信念和需求。这种类型的模型使我们能够根据潜在的教师在教学活动中的信念和需求对他们进行分类。此外,它还使我们能够确定教学中教师会不同意/同意的特定方面,并将教师的信念和需求与其个人特征联系起来。这项研究包括来自佛罗伦萨大学(IT)的一批学术教师的样本,该样本基于一项新的问卷调查进行了调查,该问卷由李克特型项目构成,涉及在教学的各个方面的信念和需求。这种类型的模型使我们能够根据潜在的教师在教学活动中的信念和需求对他们进行分类。此外,它还使我们能够确定教学中教师会不同意/同意的特定方面,并将教师的信念和需求与其个人特征联系起来。这项研究包括来自佛罗伦萨大学(IT)的一批学术教师的样本,该样本基于一项新的问卷调查进行了调查,该问卷由李克特型项目构成,涉及在教学的各个方面的信念和需求。

更新日期:2019-10-24
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