Attitudes of teachers towards the evaluation of schools

• Autor(a) principal: Bidarra, Maria da Graça
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Barreira, Carlos Folgado, Valgôde, Maria Madalena, Vaz-Rebelo, Maria Piedade, Alferes, Valentim Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v10i2.11337

The aim of this study is to characterize teachers’ attitudes towards the evaluation of schools, particularly self-evaluation and school external evaluation. This process has been taking place since 2006 and until now there is no systematized information available about the opinion of these educational actors towards the process.In order to do this, 204 teachers, in the year of 2012/13, belonging to schools at the Municipality of Figueira da Foz, a Portuguese village located in the central region, Beira Litoral, were asked.A survey was developed for the evaluation of teachers’ attitudes, including 50 items with a Likert scale, considering simultaneously school external evaluation, school self-evaluation and its impacts. Reliability analysis of the scale was developed and the results obtained were very good, α =.97 for External Evaluation Schools subscale (ESA) and α=.96 for the School SelfAssessment subscale (SEA).The results show that teachers sustain a more favorable attitude to school self-evaluation when compared to school external evaluation and that this difference is statistically significant.Also, the greater the perception of information and involvement in those modalities of schools evaluation is, more favorable is the attitude of teachers, although there are no statistically significant differences when years and positions held in the teacher career were considered.