POUZDANOST PRILAGOĐENE INAČICE SKALE SAMOPROCJENE PREDMETNO SPECIFIČNIH KOMPETENCIJA ZA RAD S UČENICIMA S TEŠKOĆAMA U NASTAVI TJELESNE I ZDRAVSTVENE KULTURE

Abstract

Teachers in primary education have both generic-specific competencies and subject-specific competencies. Generic competencies refer to general competencies and cover theoretical and practical knowledge, while subject-specific competencies refer to the application of knowledge of the substrate science of the subject area in order to realize the set tasks. The goal of the research is to examine the reliability of the Self-Assessment Scale of competencies subject-specific to the physical and health education area needed to work with students with disabilities. The research was conducted on a suitable sample of final year students of the teacher and preschool teacher education study programmes, and the total sample of respondents (N = 84) included 29 female students of the teacher education study programme and 55 female students of the preschool teacher education study programme. The adapted version of the Self-Assessment Scale of teacher competencies working in inclusive teaching (Skočić Mihić et al., 2014) was used for the self-assessment of competencies. The scale consists of ten items, and the agreement with the mentioned statements was assessed on a Likert-type scale. (1-5degrees). Six scale items refer to the cognitive dimension of competencies, while the remaining four refer to the emotional dimension of feeling competency. The results of the research indicate that students perceive both their cognitive and emotional competence to work in inclusive teaching in a physical education class as moderate. In addition, the results of Cronbach’s alpha (α = 0.76-0.88) determine both scales as reliable, and the obtained statistically significant correlation coefficients between the same variable of the first and second measurements (r = 0.57-0.88) define the good stability of the measuring instrument. From all above-mentioned factors, it was determined that the scale has satisfactory metric characteristics and is reliable for use in future research on the population of primary school teachers. The application of the scale for research purposes will provide insight into the current state of the level of competencies of future teachers for inclusive practice in physical education and provide guidelines for the best possible development of teacher education and kinesiology education programmes that will target all students, including students with disabilities