Title : ( Examining Construct Validation of the English Language Teachers Competency Test )
Authors: Reza Pishghadam , Farnoush Khosropanah ,
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The major purpose of this study was to examine the construct validity of English Language Teachers Competency Test (ELT-CT) designed by Pishghadam, Baghaei and Shahriari (2010). In this study, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used to examine the construct validity of the test. The results have shown that the underlying factors of the test are what the test-designer claims to be. The results have revealed that ten factors represent the underlying ...
Keywords
, Teacher cognition, Teacher competency tests, Teacher success, Construct validity
@article{paperid:1023214,
author = {Pishghadam, Reza and Khosropanah, Farnoush},
title = {Examining Construct Validation of the English Language Teachers Competency Test},
journal = {International Education Studies},
year = {2011},
volume = {4},
number = {3},
month = {September},
issn = {1913-9020},
pages = {194--209},
numpages = {15},
keywords = {Teacher cognition; Teacher competency tests; Teacher success; Construct validity},
}
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%A Pishghadam, Reza
%A Khosropanah, Farnoush
%J International Education Studies
%@ 1913-9020
%D 2011
