Teachers' Concerns Regarding Touching Their Students in the Classroom: A Scale Development Study

Autor/inn/en	Tu, Yangjun; Wang, Juanjuan; Yao, Limin
Titel	Teachers' Concerns Regarding Touching Their Students in the Classroom: A Scale Development Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 37 (2019) 5, S.578-589 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0734-2829
DOI	10.1177/0734282918778708
Schlagwörter	Likert Scales; Teacher Student Relationship; Nonverbal Communication; Tactual Perception; Teacher Behavior; Individual Differences; Test Construction; Construct Validity; Predictive Validity; Human Body; Classroom Environment; Gender Differences; Psychometrics; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Likert-Skala; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Taktile Wahrnehmung; Teacher behaviour; Lehrerverhalten; Individueller Unterschied; Testaufbau; Menschlicher Körper; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Geschlechterkonflikt; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Ausland
Abstract	This study details the development of the "Classroom Touch Concern Scale" (CTC), which was designed to measure individual differences among teachers regarding their feelings of concern when touching students in the classroom. The CTC incorporates two correlated dimensions: CTC associated with touching students of the same gender and CTC associated with touching students of a different gender. Studies 1 through 7 used various samples of university faculty and high school teachers to investigate the CTC with regard to item development, dimensionality, construct validity, linguistic validity, predictive validity, discriminant validity, and convergent validity. The results showed that the CTC has high internal consistency reliability and an acceptable to good construct validity, a good discriminant and convergent validity, linguistic validity, and predictive validity. We discuss the practical implications and limitations of using the CTC. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01