Comparing Teachers' Job Satisfaction across Countries: A Multiple-Pairwise Measurement Invariance Approach

Autor/inn/en	Zieger, Laura; Sims, Sam; Jerrim, John
Titel	Comparing Teachers' Job Satisfaction across Countries: A Multiple-Pairwise Measurement Invariance Approach
Quelle	In: Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 38 (2019) 3, S.75-85 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0731-1745
DOI	10.1111/emip.12254
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Comparative Education; Teacher Attitudes; Job Satisfaction; Psychometrics; Research Methodology; Measurement Techniques; Teacher Surveys; Administrator Surveys; United Kingdom (England); Teaching and Learning International Survey (NCES) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Lehrerverhalten; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Messtechnik
Abstract	There is much interest in comparing latent traits, such as teacher job satisfaction, in large international surveys. However, different countries respond to questionnaires in different languages and interpret the questions through different cultural lenses, raising doubts about the psychometric equivalence of the measurements. Making valid comparisons depends on the latent traits displaying scalar measurement invariance. Unfortunately, this condition is rarely met across many countries at once. Different approaches that maximize the utility of such surveys, but remain faithful to the principles of measurement invariance testing, are therefore needed. This article illustrates one such approach, involving multiple-pairwise comparisons. This enables us to compare teacher job satisfaction in England to 17 of the countries that participated in TALIS 2013. Teacher job satisfaction in England was as low, or lower, than all of the 17 comparable countries. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01