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Teacher Beliefs About Scholarship in Education: A Measure to Inform Professional Development Programming

Miller, William D.

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, Curriculum and Instruction.
This cross-sectional survey study of 226 public school teachers throughout Ohio presents and revalidates the Teacher Beliefs about Scholarship in Education (TBASE) measure, which includes twenty-four statements about teacher experiences with, attitudes toward, and behaviors regarding both education professors and journals. Rasch modeling of the collected data validates the measure and allows for these statements to be sequenced and grouped into four statistically discernible stages of positive belief development: Personal Interaction, Personal Identification and Increased Autonomy, Professional Identification, and Acceptance of Authority. Additionally, this study uses the TBASE measure to better understand which contexts and sources of exposure to external research in education are associated with higher TBASE scores. To that end, one-tailed independent samples t-tests were used to analyze teacher responses to eighteen additional items about various contexts and secondary sources of education research. A total of ten were found to be statistically significantly associated with increased TBASE scores.
Leigh Chiarelott, PhD (Committee Chair)
Jenny Denyer, PhD (Committee Member)
Toni Sondergeld, PhD (Committee Member)
Nancy Staub, PhD (Committee Member)
239 p.

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  • Miller, W. D. (2015). Teacher Beliefs About Scholarship in Education: A Measure to Inform Professional Development Programming [Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1422106124

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Miller, William. Teacher Beliefs About Scholarship in Education: A Measure to Inform Professional Development Programming . 2015. University of Toledo, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1422106124.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Miller, William. "Teacher Beliefs About Scholarship in Education: A Measure to Inform Professional Development Programming ." Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1422106124

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)