Exploratory study of epistemological beliefs of Hong Kong teacher education students : Resolving conceptual and empirical issues

Exploratory study of epistemological beliefs of Hong Kong teacher education students : Resolving conceptual and empirical issues

• Chan, Kwok Wai Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Elliott, Robert G. Queensland University of Technology

Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 28(3), 225-234, 2000

Routledge

2000

• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment

Student Beliefs Student Teachers Epistemology Chinese Culture Teacher Education Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

A survey study was conducted to investigate the epistemological beliefs of 352 student teachers of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Schommer's 63-item questionnaire was used in the survey study with Schommer's 12 conceptual subscales as variables in Principal Axis Factoring (PAF) analysis followed by varimax and oblimin rotation. Three factors were generated with an eigen value of 1.00 as cut-off. Some features distinct from Schommer's studies were identified. The three factors were complex, with two to three subscales representing different dimensions loaded together. The subscale concerned with Omniscient Authority, which was not reported in Schommer's findings, substantively loaded in one of the factors. Social-cultural factors were suggested to account for the apparent differences in factor structure obtained in this study, with implications drawn for teacher education. Revision of Schommer's questionnaire was suggested to study epistemological beliefs for local context.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 1359866X

• 10.1080/135986600750034841

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/9840086a

2010-09-08