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| Abstract : Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris |
| This paper reports the findings on the development and validation of the Fostering Intellectual Excitement (IE) Questionnaire amongst the student teachers. Initially, 16 items which portray the construct of Fostering IE were generated and subsequently administered to a group of 248 teachers. Analyzing the dataset using the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) indicates that, while all the 16 items of IE were retained, they were nevertheless clustered into 4 sub-constructs, labelled as Group Discussion (GD), Critical Thinking (CT), Evaluate Peer’s Work (EW) and Knowledge Transfer (KT) respectively. This 4-sub-construct Fostering IE Questionnaire was again administered to 458 in-service teachers and the dataset were analyzed by means of the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) whereby each measurement model was tested to see the relationship of each sub-construct (or latent variable) with its measures. The finding shows that each of the four sub-constructs of the IE has the sufficient validity and model fit. Consequently, a valid and reliable Fostering Intellectual Excitement Questionnaire with 4 sub-constructs, namely GD, CT, EW and KT, were generated and validated which teacher educators could capitalize on to gauge the extent such a teaching behavior has been enacted in their respective classroom.
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