Construction and psychometric analysis of the Teacher Vocation Questionnaire for students (TVQ-S)
Author
Ossa Cornejo, Carlos Javier
Lagos San Martín, Nelly Gromiria
Palma Luengo, Maritza Roxana
Arteaga González, Patricia Eugenia
Quintana Abello, Ingrid Massiel
Abstract
Teaching vocation is an important factor considered as a basic competence in most of the teacher training programs in Chile. here is little research addressing this issue, which led researchers to carry out this study through the construction of a questionnaire to measure teaching vocation in pedagogy students (TVQ-S). he questionnaire was built based on a comprehensive literature review and process of content analysis by referee criteria and levels of internal validation with an instrumental study. It was made up of 37 items distributed in 6 factors that measure the interest in teaching, academic achievement motivation, self-determination, intrinsic motivation, disciplinary interest and a scale of lies. he Pilot study involved 209 student teachers from the University of Bio-Bio, Chile, including 86% women and 14% men, aged between 19 and 29 years. Statistical analyzes indicate a good level of overall reliability (α = .833) as such as its factors (.419 and .799); factors also have a significant level of correlation with global instrument (between .539 and .760 Pearson, significant p> .001). It can be concluded that the instrument is valid and reliable for assessing the construct teaching vocation in Chilean students of pedagogy.KEYWORDS. Teaching vocation; pedagogy; psychometric properties; assessment.doi: 10.21703/rexe.20181734cossa61