ERIC Number: EJ1418050
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0256-0100
EISSN: EISSN-2076-3433
Measuring Special Education Teachers' Attitudes towards Students with Multiple Disabilities
South African Journal of Education, v43 suppl 2 Article 2206 2023
With this quantitative study we aimed to develop a scale that could be used to assess the attitudes of special education needs (SEN) teachers towards students with multiple disabilities. The scale was tested in 2 stages using 2 different samples. Firstly, the scale was administered to a convenience sample of 215 teachers. For the first study, the participants responded to 39 items related to the scale and 9 demographic questions. This sample was used to perform an exploratory factor analysis (EFA), which showed that the proposed scale had 5 factors and 22 items. A revised scale was applied to 228 participants. The sample was used to complete a confirmatory factor analysis to test the fit of the data to the theoretical structure. The scale's internal consistency was found to have a Cronbach [alpha] of 0.869. With this scale it will be possible to measure special education teachers' attitudes towards students with multiple disabilities.
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Students with Disabilities, Multiple Disabilities, Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Education Association of South Africa. University of Pretoria, Centre for the Study of Resilience, Level 3, Groenkloof Student Centre, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, George Storrar Road and Lleyds Street, Pretoria 0001, South Africa. Web site: http://www.sajournalofeducation.co.za/index.php/saje/index
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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