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Educational Belief Scale (40 items, five philosophy sub-dimensions)

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A self-report instrument the article uses to measure teachers' educational philosophy beliefs: "there are 40 items composed of five sub-dimensions that are scored as five-point Likert-type". Higher sub-dimension scores indicate that a teacher believes and adopts that philosophy more. In this survey of 789 physical education teachers, Cronbach alpha was .75-.87 in the sub-dimensions and .89 in total; the five-factor structure had been verified with confirmatory factor analysis.

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  • Items are scored from 1 (Strongly Disagree) to 5 (Strongly Agree) and interpreted per sub-dimension.
  • Because the data did not show a normal distribution, the article compared groups with non-parametric Mann-Whitney U and Kruskall-Wallis H tests.

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Target Learners

  • In-service teachers; in this article, physical education and sports teachers in official secondary and high schools

Target Learning Goals

  • Measuring how far teachers adopt perennialism, essentialism, progressivism, existentialist education and reconstructivism

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  • Isikgoz, Mustafa Enes. (2020). Analysis on Philosophical Beliefs of Physical Education and Sports Teachers towards Education in Terms of Different Variables. TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, November 2020, Special issue. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED608853
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description A self-report instrument the article uses to measure teachers' educational philosophy beliefs: "there are 40 items composed of five sub-dimensions that are scored as five-point Likert-type".
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