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| Abstract Title: | Examining the efficacy of a professional development assessment tool |
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| Abstract: | Professional development is an effective way to diffuse evidence-based instructional practices. At the same time, assessing the impacts of professional development opportunities in physics education is still an emerging field. In this paper, we examine the efficacy of an assessment instrument designed to evaluate a university-wide professional development program at NDSU, the Theory of Planned Behavior Survey (TPBS). The development of the TPBS is based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, a theoretical framework originated in psychology, which uses participants attitudes, norms, and perceived behavioral control beliefs about a particular behavior (e.g., implementation of active learning) to predict intentions and explain that behavior. The TPB has been used in other fields to understand and predict behaviors, but it has not been utilized in STEM Ed research. Previous work has identified a link between changes in the constructs measured by the instrument that occurred after professional development at NDSU and the increase in the participants' use of active learning techniques in the classroom. In this paper, we focus on examining evidence for the validity of the instrument and discuss methodologies for data collection, namely the retrospective pre-test approach, which avoids biases associated with self-reported data collected via traditional pre-post survey administrations. We use Arjoon, Xu, and Lewis's framework for validity and provide evidence for the reliability, internal structure, and temporal stability of our instrument. We will also compare results from our instrument to those obtained using the Approaches to Teaching Inventory. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 1 Room C |
| Poster Number: | 1C-1 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
| Contributed Paper Download: | Download Contributed Paper |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Alistair McInerny North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58102 Phone: 2066931688 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Mila Kryjevskaia, North Dakota State University |
