Validation of the Teacher Decision-Making Inventory (TDMI): measuring data-based and intuitive dimensions in teachers' decision Process

Q3 Social Sciences

Studia Paedagogica Pub Date : 2022-02-14 DOI:10.5817/sp2021-4-3

Kristin Vanlommel, Elke Pepermans

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Abstract

Teacher decision making has a great impact on the quality of education in schools, yet we know little about how teachers make decisions in practice. It is assumed that teachers use both intuition and data in the different steps of the decision process. No reliable, valid scales are available to research both dimensions during the different steps of teachers' decision process (problem definition, data collection, sense making, and evaluatioof alternatives). Building on the integratedframework we constructed in earlier research, the main aim of this study was to develop and validate a Teacher Decision-Making Inventory fl'DMI). One hundred and one teachers in adult education participated voluntarily in a web-based survey. Based on the good UFA factor loadings, the CFA fit indices, and the internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha), we conclude that the TDMI is a valid psychometric tool that can be used to assess the intuitive and data-driven dimensions of teachers' decisions in large-scale quantitative research.

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教师决策量表（TDMI）的验证：测量教师决策过程中基于数据的直观维度

教师决策对学校教育质量有很大影响，但我们对教师在实践中如何决策知之甚少。假设教师在决策过程的不同步骤中使用直觉和数据。在教师决策过程的不同步骤（问题定义、数据收集、感知和备选方案评估）中，没有可靠、有效的量表可用于研究这两个维度。在我们在早期研究中构建的综合框架的基础上，本研究的主要目的是开发和验证教师决策量表。101名成人教育教师自愿参加了一项网络调查。基于良好的UFA因子负荷、CFA拟合指数和内部一致性（Cronbach’s alpha），我们得出结论，TDMI是一种有效的心理测量工具，可用于评估大规模定量研究中教师决策的直观和数据驱动维度。

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Studia Paedagogica Social Sciences-Education

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1.00

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12 weeks

期刊介绍： Studia Paedagogica publishes original papers on education, upbringing and learning from all spheres of social life. The papers are theoretical, but mainly empirical as the journal publishes research undertaken in the Czech Republic and abroad. The journal publishes only original research papers and is open to both experienced and early researchers. Early researchers can publish their papers in the section Emerging Researchers of the journal and are offered intensive editorial support. The journal is interdisciplinary - it covers current topics in educational research while at the same time providing scope for studies grounded in other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, two issues are dedicated to general interest articles and are in Czech, two issues are on a single topic and are in English. Studia Paedagogica is a peer reviewed journal published by the Masaryk University. The executive editors are members of the staff of the Department of Educational Sciences and the editorial board comprises of international experts. The name of the journal is derived from the name of its predecessor, Studia minora facultatis philosophicae universitatis brunensis (Sborník prací filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity), which was issued from 1996 to 2008. However, the tradition of the journal dates much further back as the pedagogical-psychological series of the journal was published even between 1966 to 1995.