Teachers' Perception: Competent or Not in Curriculum Development

Autor/inn/en	Yavuz Konokman, Gamze; Yanpar Yelken, Tugba; Karasolak, Kürsat; Cesur, Esra
Titel	Teachers' Perception: Competent or Not in Curriculum Development
Quelle	In: Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 5 (2017) 4, S.56-73 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2289-3024
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Curriculum Development; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Competencies; Gender Differences; Intellectual Disciplines; Tenure; Teacher Competency Testing; Factor Analysis; Preschool Teachers; Elementary School Teachers; Statistical Analysis; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Lehrerverhalten; Lehrkunst; Geschlechterkonflikt; Geisteswissenschaften; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Faktorenanalyse; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Statistische Analyse; Türkei
Abstract	The purpose of the study is to determine teachers' perceptions on curriculum development competencies and determine whether their perceptions differ according to gender, branches, seniority and graduated faculty type. The study consist of two parts: One part is the improvement of curriculum development competency scale with the participation of 350 teachers in Turkey; the other is the determination of teachers' perceptions on curriculum development competencies with the participation of 472 teachers in Turkey. The validity of the scale is provided with exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The analysis results indicate the scale with 37 items has a single factor and the Cronbach Alpha coefficient parameter is calculated as 0.945. Descriptive statistics are examined to determining the teachers' perceptions on their curriculum development competencies. Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis H test are used to determine whether the teachers' perceptions on curriculum development competencies differ according to gender, branch, seniority and graduated faculty type. As a result, teachers often perceive themselves incompetent on curriculum development and their perceptions only differ as regards branch. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	University of Malaya Faculty of Education. Kuala Lumpur 50603 Malaysia. Web site: http://moj-es.net/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01