Examining the Factor Structure of Instrument for Faculty Members’ Teaching Motivation Measurement in Iranian Higher Education (Case: Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman)
Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum PlanningAsghar Soltani 1 , Zahra رستگاری 2
1 - Associate Professor, Department of Education, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.
2 - M. A. Student, Department of Education, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.
Keywords: Higher Education, Faculty Members, factor structure, Teaching motivation,
Abstract :
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the factor structure of 25 items questionnaire of faculty members’ teaching motivation measurement in higher education. The study population was included all the faculty members of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman in academic year of 2017-2018, that were about 621 faculty members. Research sample was included 244 faculty members who were selected by multi-staged cluster sampling. The internal consistency of questionnaire was measured through Cronbach’s alpha and was estimated to be.86. In order to investigate the factor structure, the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used via AMOS 23 software. Data were analyzed by comparative and parsimony goodness-of-fit indices Results showed that the four factors of personal efficacy, interest, effort and outcome efficacy have a significant weight in explaining the construct of faculty members’ teaching motivation. Also, two subscales of personal efficacy: context and personal efficacy: general, have significant weights in defining the personal efficacy. Accordingly, after elimination of its six items, this questionnaire is a suitable instrument to measure the faculty members’ teaching motivation in Iranian higher education, and the factors of effort, interest, personal efficacy and outcome efficacy have the most effect in measuring their teaching motivation, respectively.
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