TY - JOUR
T1 - To what extent do teachers in European countries differ in their professional community practices?
AU - Lomos, Catalina
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Within comparative school effectiveness research facilitated by large-scale data across countries, this article presents the results of the testing for measurement invariance of the latent concept of Professional Community (PC) across 23 European countries and more than 35,000 teachers in secondary schools. The newly proposed Multiple-Group Factor Analysis Alignment method is applied to obtain the mean differences of the latent PC factor, while also identifying the non-invariant parameters in these different countries. After performing a number of robustness checks, including the Multiple-Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MGCFA) exact scalar method, we conclude that teachers in Eastern European countries report the highest average perceived PC practices. The countries with smaller PC mean differences tend to shift places in the ranking when the 2 methods are applied; however, very few changes among the groups with significant latent mean differences are observed.
AB - Within comparative school effectiveness research facilitated by large-scale data across countries, this article presents the results of the testing for measurement invariance of the latent concept of Professional Community (PC) across 23 European countries and more than 35,000 teachers in secondary schools. The newly proposed Multiple-Group Factor Analysis Alignment method is applied to obtain the mean differences of the latent PC factor, while also identifying the non-invariant parameters in these different countries. After performing a number of robustness checks, including the Multiple-Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MGCFA) exact scalar method, we conclude that teachers in Eastern European countries report the highest average perceived PC practices. The countries with smaller PC mean differences tend to shift places in the ranking when the 2 methods are applied; however, very few changes among the groups with significant latent mean differences are observed.
KW - The concept of professional community
KW - cross-cultural approach
KW - multiple-group factor analysis alignment method
KW - teacher-perceived collaborative behaviour and beli
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09243453.2017.1279186
U2 - http://dx.10.1080/09243453.2017.1279186
DO - http://dx.10.1080/09243453.2017.1279186
M3 - Article
SN - 0924-3453
VL - 28
SP - 276
EP - 291
JO - School Effectiveness and School Improvement
JF - School Effectiveness and School Improvement
ER -