Abstract
The study's purpose was to develop a valid and reliable tool for measuring innovative thinking competencies with reference to education. The tool development was guided by the cognitive, experiential, and sociocultural theories. The validity and reliability of the tool were established using quantitative methods through three main stages: Content validity by inter-rater agreement; Construct validity by principle component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis; Concurrent validity by correlations between scales. The participants were ten educators and 743 preservice teachers from two higher education institutions. The findings produced a tool for measuring educational innovative thinking competencies in the context of teacher education.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 103193 |
| Journal | Teaching and Teacher Education |
| Volume | 97 |
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| State | Published - Jan 2021 |
Keywords
- Individual differences
- Innovative thinking competencies
- Measurement tool
- Preservice teachers
- Reliability
- Teacher education
- Validity
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Education