Validating a Reflective Teaching Questionnaire for the Educational System of Iran

This research was an attempt to devise a model for Reflective Teaching to be employed by high school teachers in Iran and other countries. Then, the devised model was turned into a questionnaire, including 29 items or questions on the Likert scale to represent the basic principles of reflective teaching. The Reflective Teaching Questionnaire was then validated by the statistical techniques of the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The subjects of the study were 600 high school teachers teaching at schools in different cities of different provinces in Iran. Also, the high school teachers' awareness and application of reflective teaching were investigated. The exploratory factor analysis was used to determine the constructs behind reflective teaching which were explored to be (1) practical, (2) cognitive, (3) meta-cognitive, (4) learners, (5) critical, and (6) ethical factors. Therefore, it is suggested that the concerned teachers make themselves familiar with the theoretical and practical aspects of reflective teaching and then use it in their classrooms.

کلیدواژه ها:

Reflective Teaching (RT) ، RT Questionnaire ، Validation ، Education System of Iran ، High School Level