DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROFESSIONAL TEACHER SPIRITUALITY SCALE
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This study aimed to 1) develop the spirituality of being teachers professional; 2) develop and verify the quality of the spirituality of being teachers professional measure; and 3) identify the meaning of the scores acquired from the measure. The sample group included teachers from Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) via Multi-stage Sampling. The tools for the study were semi-structural interview form and the spirituality of being teachers professional measure. Data were analysed by using content analysis and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The results of the study revealed that the spirituality of being teachers professional included 4 elements: 1) love and trust in the career, 2) learning contents, 3) best practice model, and 4) sympathy for students. The CFA result indicated that the model of the spirituality of being teachers professional related to empirical data. Scale has discrimination ranging from 0.583 to 0.729 and reliability was 0.88. The overall development of meaning identification of the scores acquired from the measure have got raw score between 41 – 185, with T-score from 15.42 – 79.98 (P0.03 - P99.86).
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