Students’ Perceptions of Preservice Teachers’ Behavior: Development and Evaluation of a Questionnaire Using Rasch and Multilevel Modeling

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Abstract

This study reports the development and examination of a measure tapping students’ perceptions of (pre-service) teachers’ behaviour to explore the practical value of such a measure in teacher education and teacher professional development programs. The measure was developed based on the evidence-based teacher/classroom effectiveness framework. From a sample of 1635 students of 91 pre-service teachers teaching in secondary education in the Netherlands, random subsamples of 809 of 45 teachers and of 826 students of 46 pre-service teachers were included in the analyses. Classical test theory, Rasch modelling and multilevel modelling were used. Results revealed that a shortened and representative measure of teachers’ behaviour meet the requirements of the Rasch model sufficiently. The predictive quality of the shortened measure was confirmed.

Authors

• Ridwan Maulana, University of Groningen

• Michelle Helms-Lorenz, University of Groningen

• Wim van de Grift, University of Groningen