Abstract

Objectives The purposes The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between various latent profiles of teaching competencies and influence factors of elementary school preservice teachers. Methods For this, we applied the Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) based on the data collected through an online survey targeting a total of 537 4th grade preservice teachers enrolled in national universities of education. In particular, IC index, entropy, significance of LMR_LRT and BLRT were used to determine the number of latent profiles. Results As a result of applying LPA, the final five latent profiles were found to be the most suitable. : The teaching competency-high group (26.8%) with the highest level in all sub-factors constituting all teaching competency, class management-high group (6.7%) with excellent class reflection and criticism, class atmosphere creation and class management, teaching competency-medium group (45.1%) with average levels of all sub-factors, teaching competency-low group (18.9%) with all sub-factors below the middle level, and teaching competency-lowest group (3.2%) with all sub-factors at the lowest level. To the next, as a result of verifying the variables that affect the classification of the latent profile for teaching competency, it was found that teacher belief and cooperative competency had a significant effect. Conclusions This study has empirical implications in that it identified the existence of various sub-latent profiles according to the teaching competencies of pre-service elementary teachers, and investigated the effect of internal and professional variables on profile classification comprehensively. Finally, the significance and limitations of this study were discussed.

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