Construction and Verification of Professional Indices for High School Physical Education Teachers

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The purpose of this study was to construct a set of Professional Indices for High School Physical Education Teachers (PIHSPET) after the new physical education curriculum guidelines of Taiwanese senior high schools was issued in 2006. The validity and reliability of the PIHSPET were examined. The research methods included Delphi method and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Initially, 22 physical education experts were assigned and served in Delphi method to construct the PIHSPET. Then, 293 high school physical education teachers, sampled by stratified random cluster sampling method, finished the PIHSPET questionnaires. The questionnaires were analyzed by CFA by using the LISREL statistical program The results showed that PIHSPET included 3 first-level indices, 12 second-level indices and 59 third-level indices. The first-level indices contains 3 dimensions including professional knowledge, professional competence and professional attitude. The professional knowledge dimension contains 4 second-level indices including cognition of general curriculum guideline, cognition of physical education curriculum guideline, general pedagogical knowledge and content knowledge of physical education. The professional competence dimension has 5 second-level indices including teaching capacity in sport, curricular plan in physical education, teaching strategy in physical education, teaching evaluation in physical education and risk management in sport. The professional attitude dimension contains 3 second-level indices including physical education teachers' belief, teachers' professional spirit and perspective of professional growth. The CFA indicated that the goodness-of-fit of the modification model could reach an acceptable standard. It is concluded that the PIHSPET is a well-consedered method with fair validity and reliability. It may be used to evaluate professional quality and developmental needs for high school physical education teachers.