Global competence scale: An adaptation to measure pre-service English teachers’ global competences

İsmail Emre Köş; Handan Çelik

Makale detayları

Global competence scale: An adaptation to measure pre-service English teachers’ global competences

Yazarlar:

İsmail Emre Köş | Handan Çelik

Yayıncı:

İzzet KARA

Ana Başlıklar:

Other Fields of Education

Dergi:

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education Vol.10 Issue 4, pp.813-838

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2023

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001303220

pISSN:

2148-7456

Anahtar kelimeler:

Özet:

 Global competence is a comprehensive term referring to the interconnectedness of various constructs ranging from knowledge to values required to communicate, cooperate, and work towards the well-being of not only the local but also the global community. Teacher education has an important role in preparing teachers equipped with global competences. Therefore, having tools which can validly and reliably measure if and to what extent pre-service teachers are globally competent is a requisite. Hence, this study aimed at adapting and validating the Global Competence scale developed by Liu et al. 2020 to Turkish to measure pre-service English language teachers global competences and to obtain evidence regarding the psychometric properties of the scale to measure global competences in teaching and teacher education. The data collected from pre-service English language teachers N351 studying at various universities in Türkiye was divided into two equal halves. The first part of it was used to perform exploratory factor analysis which revealed an eight-factor 29-item structure. The second half which was used for confirmatory factor analysis yielded a good fit of a 25-item, eight-factor structure scale. The Cronbachs Alpha coefficient α .88 and McDonalds Omega ω  .89 which indicated good internal consistency in the CFA dataset revealed excellent internal consistency α .90, ω  .91 in another independent dataset. Thus, the study revealed that the Global Competence scale has a good level of psychometric properties and reliability to measure pre-service English language teachers global competences in the Turkish context.

 Global competence is a comprehensive term referring to the interconnectedness of various constructs ranging from knowledge to values required to communicate, cooperate, and work towards the well-being of not only the local but also the global community. Teacher education has an important role in preparing teachers equipped with global competences. Therefore, having tools which can validly and reliably measure if and to what extent pre-service teachers are globally competent is a requisite. Hence, this study aimed at adapting and validating the Global Competence scale developed by Liu et al. 2020 to Turkish to measure pre-service English language teachers global competences and to obtain evidence regarding the psychometric properties of the scale to measure global competences in teaching and teacher education. The data collected from pre-service English language teachers N351 studying at various universities in Türkiye was divided into two equal halves. The first part of it was used to perform exploratory factor analysis which revealed an eight-factor 29-item structure. The second half which was used for confirmatory factor analysis yielded a good fit of a 25-item, eight-factor structure scale. The Cronbachs Alpha coefficient α .88 and McDonalds Omega ω  .89 which indicated good internal consistency in the CFA dataset revealed excellent internal consistency α .90, ω  .91 in another independent dataset. Thus, the study revealed that the Global Competence scale has a good level of psychometric properties and reliability to measure pre-service English language teachers global competences in the Turkish context.

 Global competence is a comprehensive term referring to the interconnectedness of various constructs ranging from knowledge to values required to communicate, cooperate, and work towards the well-being of not only the local but also the global community. Teacher education has an important role in preparing teachers equipped with global competences. Therefore, having tools which can validly and reliably measure if and to what extent pre-service teachers are globally competent is a requisite. Hence, this study aimed at adapting and validating the Global Competence scale developed by Liu et al. 2020 to Turkish to measure pre-service English language teachers global competences and to obtain evidence regarding the psychometric properties of the scale to measure global competences in teaching and teacher education. The data collected from pre-service English language teachers N351 studying at various universities in Türkiye was divided into two equal halves. The first part of it was used to perform exploratory factor analysis which revealed an eight-factor 29-item structure. The second half which was used for confirmatory factor analysis yielded a good fit of a 25-item, eight-factor structure scale. The Cronbachs Alpha coefficient α .88 and McDonalds Omega ω  .89 which indicated good internal consistency in the CFA dataset revealed excellent internal consistency α .90, ω  .91 in another independent dataset. Thus, the study revealed that the Global Competence scale has a good level of psychometric properties and reliability to measure pre-service English language teachers global competences in the Turkish context.

 Global competence is a comprehensive term referring to the interconnectedness of various constructs ranging from knowledge to values required to communicate, cooperate, and work towards the well-being of not only the local but also the global community. Teacher education has an important role in preparing teachers equipped with global competences. Therefore, having tools which can validly and reliably measure if and to what extent pre-service teachers are globally competent is a requisite. Hence, this study aimed at adapting and validating the Global Competence scale developed by Liu et al. 2020 to Turkish to measure pre-service English language teachers global competences and to obtain evidence regarding the psychometric properties of the scale to measure global competences in teaching and teacher education. The data collected from pre-service English language teachers N351 studying at various universities in Türkiye was divided into two equal halves. The first part of it was used to perform exploratory factor analysis which revealed an eight-factor 29-item structure. The second half which was used for confirmatory factor analysis yielded a good fit of a 25-item, eight-factor structure scale. The Cronbachs Alpha coefficient α .88 and McDonalds Omega ω  .89 which indicated good internal consistency in the CFA dataset revealed excellent internal consistency α .90, ω  .91 in another independent dataset. Thus, the study revealed that the Global Competence scale has a good level of psychometric properties and reliability to measure pre-service English language teachers global competences in the Turkish context.

Makale detayları

Global competence scale: An adaptation to measure pre-service English teachers’ global competences

Yazarlar:

İsmail Emre Köş | Handan Çelik

Yayıncı:

İzzet KARA

Ana Başlıklar:

Other Fields of Education

Dergi:

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education Vol.10 Issue 4, pp.813-838

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2023

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001303220

pISSN:

2148-7456

Global competence

Globalization

Pre-service English teachers

Teacher educationGlobal competence

Globalization

Pre-service English teachers

Teacher education

Sayı

Makale detayları

Yazarlar: İsmail Emre Köş | Handan Çelik

Yayıncı: İzzet KARA

Ana Başlıklar: Other Fields of Education

Dergi: International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education Vol.10 Issue 4, pp.813-838

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2023

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2001303220

pISSN: 2148-7456

Sayı

Yazarlar:

İsmail Emre Köş | Handan Çelik

Yayıncı:

İzzet KARA

Ana Başlıklar:

Other Fields of Education

Dergi:

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education Vol.10 Issue 4, pp.813-838

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2023

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001303220

pISSN:

2148-7456