Teachers’ Attitudes towards Evaluation Research and Their Identity Processing Styles

• Authors: Zuzanna Sury , Barbara Ostafińska-Molik , Małgorzata Steć

Abstracts

EN

The main purpose of this paper is to present the preliminary findings of the research focused on the relationship between teachers’ identity processing styles and their attitudes towards external and internal evaluation, as well as teachers’ self-evaluation. This goal allowed for formulating the following research questions: (1) What are teachers’ attitudes toward the three types of evaluation? (2) What are their identity processing styles? and (3) What relationships between the above variables exist? The average was highest on the informational style scale and lowest on the diffuse-avoidant style scale. The study demonstrated a clear differentiation of teachers’ attitudes: from a negative attitude towards external evaluation to a positive one towards self-evaluation. Although the study did not find statistically significant relationships, it contributed to some conclusions on how to study teachers’ attitudes towards evaluation in the future. The research is a step towards finding the factors that positively and negatively influence teachers’ perceptions of evaluation research in their work.

Keywords

EN

evaluation; educational evaluation; teacher; attitudes; identity processing styles

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 74
• Pages: 169-181

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Zuzanna Sury

• Jagiellonian University

• https://orcid.org/0000000309869370

author

Barbara Ostafińska-Molik

• Jagiellonian University

• https://orcid.org/0000000150933069

author

Małgorzata Steć

• Jagiellonian University

• https://orcid.org/0000000218419542

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.23.74.4.12

Biblioteka Nauki

24964702