Development and Validation of a Scale for Teacher Professional Capital for ICT-enhanced Teaching Innovation

Abstract

From an economic perspective, ICT-enhanced teaching innovation is a value-added process of leveraging various capitals to add long term net worth to teaching, where teacher professional capital is a most important capital. However, few studies concerning ICT-enhanced teaching innovation focus on teacher professional capital. Therefore, this paper aims to guide teacher professional development in ICT- enhanced teaching innovation by development and validation of a scale for teacher professional capital for ICT-enhanced teaching innovation. First, the concept and construct of teacher professional capital for ICT-enhanced teaching innovation was clarified, and then an instrument of teacher professional capital for ICT-enhanced teaching innovation was developed and validated. Questionnaire survey was used to collect data from primary and secondary school teachers in Xi’an, China, and 3421 valid samples were obtained. Through item analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, the initial instrument was modified and the reliability and validity of the scale were verified. The results indicate that, the revised scale is a reliable and robust instrument that can be utilized to measure teacher professional capital for ICT- enhanced teaching innovation.