TY - JOUR
T1 - Higher education-based teacher educators’ researcherly disposition
T2 - An international perspective
AU - Tack, Hanne
AU - Guberman, Ainat
AU - MacPhail, Ann
AU - Vanderlinde, Ruben
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Association for Teacher Education in Europe.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - By presenting the results of a large-scale international study, this study targets a better empirical understanding of teacher educators’ researcherly disposition or the teacher educators' habit of mind to engage with research to improve their practice and contribute to the knowledge base on teacher education. Data was collected from an international sample of 1158 higher education-based teacher educators in six countries, most of them being European. The first part of the article reports on the development of iTERDS, i.e. the international Teacher Educators’ Researcherly Disposition Scale. This 16-item scale distinguishes three subdimensions: (1) Valuing research (6 items), (2) Being a smart consumer of research (5 items), and (3) Being a producer of research (5 items). Goodness of fit estimates indicate good fit. The second part of the article explores differences in teacher educators’ researcherly disposition by means of cluster analysis. Four different clusters of teacher educators were found: Cluster 1 ‘inactive to research teacher educators’, Cluster 2 ‘well-read teacher educators’, Cluster 3 ‘researching teacher educators’, and Cluster 4 ‘teacher educator-researchers’. Post hoc analyses on these clusters explore relevant background differences between the clusters in terms of qualifications and work context.
AB - By presenting the results of a large-scale international study, this study targets a better empirical understanding of teacher educators’ researcherly disposition or the teacher educators' habit of mind to engage with research to improve their practice and contribute to the knowledge base on teacher education. Data was collected from an international sample of 1158 higher education-based teacher educators in six countries, most of them being European. The first part of the article reports on the development of iTERDS, i.e. the international Teacher Educators’ Researcherly Disposition Scale. This 16-item scale distinguishes three subdimensions: (1) Valuing research (6 items), (2) Being a smart consumer of research (5 items), and (3) Being a producer of research (5 items). Goodness of fit estimates indicate good fit. The second part of the article explores differences in teacher educators’ researcherly disposition by means of cluster analysis. Four different clusters of teacher educators were found: Cluster 1 ‘inactive to research teacher educators’, Cluster 2 ‘well-read teacher educators’, Cluster 3 ‘researching teacher educators’, and Cluster 4 ‘teacher educator-researchers’. Post hoc analyses on these clusters explore relevant background differences between the clusters in terms of qualifications and work context.
KW - measurement instrument
KW - quantitative
KW - researcherly disposition
KW - teacher education
KW - Teacher educator
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85152382326&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02619768.2023.2195974
DO - 10.1080/02619768.2023.2195974
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85152382326
SN - 0261-9768
JO - European Journal of Teacher Education
JF - European Journal of Teacher Education
ER -