Identifying and Validating of the dimensions of teachers' work ethic in developing their professional position within the educational system: A Mixe research approach

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• reza masouminejad ¹
• zahra babaei ²
• khadijeh heshmati mesr kanlou ³
• kawsar khezerzadeh ³

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran

² Master's student and education secretary

³ Bachelor of Elementary Education, Farhangian University

10.30495/jedu.2024.30874.6193

Abstract

Introduction: The purpose of the research was to identify the components of teachers' work ethics in the framework of the educational system and its Validating in order to develop their professional status.

research methodology: The research approach was mixed. In the qualitative part, inductive content analysis was used, and in the quantitative part, factor analysis was used. Qualitative participants were teachers, 17 of whom were selected through an interview with the purposeful index sampling method. To determine the validity, the researcher's self-review method, member checking and data enrichment was used, and to determine the reliability, the simultaneous review method was used. In the quantitative part, the research community included teachers from Chaypare, Peldasht and Chaldaran cities in West Azerbaijan province, 350 people were selected as a sample through Cochran's formula. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data, which was based on the findings of qualitative research. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was used to measure the validity of the questionnaire and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to measure the reliability.

Findings: The Findings of the analysis in the qualitative part led to the identification of 6 main themes of educational research, teacher network, professional discourse creation, cognitive viability, social management and scientific character building. The results of the quantitative part also showed that the questionnaire has the necessary validity and reliability. The main unit or measure was confirmed with 6 factors of 40 indicators and finally a tool was introduced to measure the dimensions of teachers' work ethic in their professional development.

Conclusion: The results showed that the findings of this research can be used in the design and development of teacher competency-based programs in Farhangian universities as well as in in-service retraining courses for teachers.

Keywords

• Validating
• work ethic
• teachers
• professional status

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