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Development Of An Instrument To Measure K-12 Teacher Demoralization In A Test-Based Accountability Context, Heather A. Carlson-Jaquez
Development Of An Instrument To Measure K-12 Teacher Demoralization In A Test-Based Accountability Context, Heather A. Carlson-Jaquez
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The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure K-12 teacher demoralization. An increasing body of literature has labeled modern education policies as having a demoralizing effect on teachers (Darling-Hammond & Rustique-Forrester, 2002; Noddings, 2004; Ryan & Brown, 2005; Nichols & Berliner, 2007; Santoro, 2011; Hargreaves, Braun, & Gebhardt, 2013). Teacher demoralization has been defined as a teacher’s “inability to access the moral rewards of teaching” (Santoro, 2011, p. 3). Data was collected from a population of K-12 educators through cognitive interviews (n=6) and a large scale data collection analyzed with a principal component analysis …