Creencias sobre los procesos educativos en la formación inicial del profesorado de enseñanza secundaria del área de ciencia y tecnologíaDiseño y características de un cuestionario

Abstract

Significant research has shown that implicit beliefs and ideas about education have great influence on the educational practice of teachers. For this reason, during three academic years, we have carried out a study to explore various aspects of initial teaching thinking about scientific education, in which have participated 188 students of the Master's Training Teacher Secondary Education. For this purpose a questionnaire of Likert scale has been designed, integrated by diverse items on the processes of learning, teaching and evaluation in the field of the sciences, which has made it possible to gather numerous data on the global vision of scientific education shown by future secondary school teachers. In this paper we intend to analyze the main characteristics of the questionnaire, demonstrating that it has sufficient reliability and consistency as a research instrument and, therefore, may be useful to explore the ideas of future science and technology teachers on educational processes related to teaching activity.