The Investigation of validity and reliability of academic optimism of individual teacher questionnaire

Subject Areas : Tectonostratigraphy

Ali Ghasemi ^{1 *} , Parvin Kadivar ² , Hadi Keramati ³ , Mehdi Arabzadeh ⁴

1 - Phd, Student of Educational Psychology, Tehran,Iran. Teacher of Azad University, Parsian, Iran.
2 - Professor of Educational Psychology Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assist of Professor of Educational Psychology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Assist of Professor of Educational Psychology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-09-15 Accepted : 2018-11-19 Published : 2018-08-23

Keywords: academic optimism of individual teachers, academic emphasis, teacher trust in parents and students, teacher sense of efficacy,

Abstract :

The Investigation of validity and reliability of academic optimism of individual teacher questionnaire
ALI GHASEMI, PARVIN KADIVAR, HADI KERAMATI, MEHDI ARABZADEH
Purpose: The main purpose of this article is investigation of validity and reliability of 11 Items academic optimism of individual teacher questionnaire.
Method: The research method is correlational-description method. Questionnaires were administered between teachers, of ASALOUYEH, PARSIAN and SHIBKOOH cities in south Zone Hormozgan and Bushehr of Iran. 501 teachers selected with randomized stratified sampling. 298 men and 203 women responded to questionnaire.
Results: Validity of questionnaire was earned with exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Three factors is eared consist teacher academic emphasis, teacher trust in parents and students and teacher sense of efficacy. Result of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) also showed that the goodness fit of the three factors were good fit of the data to the hypothesized model. Reliability of academic optimism questionnaire is earned with Alpha Cronbach Coefficient method. Alpha Cronbach coefficient of teachers, academic optimism and coefficient dimensions of this questionnaire consist teacher academic emphasis, teacher trust in students- parents and teacher sense of efficacy had acceptable Reliability.
Conclusion: The result showed that the three factors of academic optimism questionnaire has good and acceptable validity and reliability. This questionnaire can be used in instructional and psychological research in Iran.