TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing a questionnaire to measure preservice elementary teachers’ emotions for teaching science and mathematics
T2 - Preservice teacher emotions
AU - Park, Mihwa
AU - Flores, Raymond
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The purpose of this study was to develop a questionnaire to measure elementary preservice teachers’ emotions about teaching science and mathematics. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire, Teacher Emotion for teaching Science and Mathematics (TESaM), was designed and pilot and field tested with a sample of preservice elementary teachers in the United States. Using the rating scale Rasch model, results showed that the TESaM can produce reliable and valid measures of preservice teachers’ emotions concerning teaching science and mathematics. Based on measures from the TESaM, we found that elementary preservice teachers had more positive emotions about teaching science than about teaching mathematics. Additionally, when comparing emotions overall, preservice elementary teachers experienced greater Anxiety than Anger and Joy over teaching both content areas. Implications for teacher educators and future research are discussed.
AB - The purpose of this study was to develop a questionnaire to measure elementary preservice teachers’ emotions about teaching science and mathematics. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire, Teacher Emotion for teaching Science and Mathematics (TESaM), was designed and pilot and field tested with a sample of preservice elementary teachers in the United States. Using the rating scale Rasch model, results showed that the TESaM can produce reliable and valid measures of preservice teachers’ emotions concerning teaching science and mathematics. Based on measures from the TESaM, we found that elementary preservice teachers had more positive emotions about teaching science than about teaching mathematics. Additionally, when comparing emotions overall, preservice elementary teachers experienced greater Anxiety than Anger and Joy over teaching both content areas. Implications for teacher educators and future research are discussed.
KW - Emotion
KW - preservice teacher
KW - questionnaire
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85119445675&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09500693.2021.2001072
DO - 10.1080/09500693.2021.2001072
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85119445675
SN - 0950-0693
VL - 43
SP - 2911
EP - 2935
JO - International Journal of Science Education
JF - International Journal of Science Education
IS - 18
ER -