CREATION AND VALIDATION OF AN ASSESSMENT SCALE OF THE TEACHER TUTOR PRACTICE

• Autor(a) principal: Garcia, Marta Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Silva, Dirceu da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Paidéi@
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unimesvirtual.com.br/index.php/paideia/article/view/487
• topic: Educação; Educação a Distância; Formação de Professores; Escala de Atitude; Professor Tutor; Formação de Professores; EaD.

This paper presents the process of construction and validation of a research instrument called Assessment Scale of the Teacher Tutor Practice. It is a Likert attitude scale which was applied in 386 teachers tutors from different institutions of higher education in Brazil. This instrument assesses three aspects relate to the practice of tutors: conceptions about their role, about distance training and functions that they develop in the virtual learning environment. The instrument was submitted a theoretical, semantic and statistical validation. The data obtained were subjected to Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and the final version of the scale consisted of 38 assertive distributed in eight constructs with adequate parameters of reliability, convergent and discriminant validity. The overall quality of the scale was measured by the Goodness-of-Fit (GoF) presented the value 0.9.