Further development of the Teacher Attitudes to Inclusion Scale: principal components and Rasch analysis

Title
Further development of the Teacher Attitudes to Inclusion Scale: principal components and Rasch analysis
Publication Date
2024
Author(s)
Boyle, Christopher
Costello, Shane
Anderson, Joanna
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6171-0909
Email: jander62@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jander62
Collett, Kim
Page, Angela
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9857-9054
Email: apage31@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:apage31
Allen, Kelly-Ann
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1080/13603116.2022.2063425
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/54443
Abstract

Providing an effective and high-quality education for all children and young people remains a significant challenge throughout the world. Disputes and contradictions contribute to the prevailing debate as to the justification and merits of inclusive education. One of the reoccurring themes within the literature on inclusive education is the relationship between the successful application of teachers' knowledge, skills, and abilities utilised to include inclusive strategies in their classrooms, and their attitude towards inclusion. A teacher with more positive attitudes will be more accepting of students, build more successful relationships with them, aid in a child's sense of belonging, student academic success and social integration. To address this issue, the Teacher Attitudes to Inclusion Scale (TAIS) was developed by the first author to measure the attitudes of qualified (in-service) teachers towards inclusive education. Using an Exploratory Principal Components Analysis and Reliability, a revised version of the TAIS, the TAIS-R provides a psychometrically validated measure of two constructs - a global attitude and a personal attitude towards inclusive education that provides an accurate evaluation tool for research and practice.

Link
Citation
International Journal of Inclusive Education, 28(10), p. 2122-2137
ISSN
1464-5173
1360-3116
Start page
2122
End page
2137

Files:

NameSizeformatDescriptionLink
closedpublished/FurtherBoyleAndersonPage2024JournalArticle.pdf 962.366 KB application/pdf Published version View document