Instruments for Professional Development and Program Evaluation Measuring Teachers’ Motivational and Behavioral Traits

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Abstract

This paper presents two empirically developed and validated instruments that can be used to evaluate and conduct research on the effectiveness of professional development (PD) programs for science and mathematics teachers. The first instrument is a survey composed of Likert-scale items about teaching self-efficacy, teacher-school fit, leadership engagement, and diversity dispositions relating to competence, autonomy, and relatedness domains of the self-determination theory (SDT; Ryan & Deci, 2017). The second instrument includes a set of interview protocols to gather data on motivations behind teacher retention and mobility, leadership engagement, and teachers’ social networks. The two instruments provide an efficient, valid, and reliable way for researchers and practitioners to evaluate and study the impact of PD programs for teachers.

Authors

• Adem Ekmekci, Rice University

• Mahtob Aqazade, Illinois State University

• David John Gibson, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

• Gregory Rushton, Middle Tennessee State University