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The concerns about inclusive education scale: Dimensionality, factor structure, and development of a short-form version (CIES-SF)

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Teachers play a vital role in the implementation of inclusive education, and understanding where they have worries is essential to researchers and policymakers likewise. The Concerns about Inclusive Education Scale (CIES) is a frequently used scale globally to examine teachers’ concerns but yielded mixed results regarding its factor structure. Using a large teacher sample (N1 = 538), we analyzed its factor structure and made modifications informed by our analysis. Results favored a recently proposed factor solution over the original one. Based on this solution, a short form was created, which reduces the CIES length by 42%. It demonstrated excellent model fit in an additional validation sample (N2 = 537), and efficiently and comprehensively assesses teacher concerns about inclusive education.

Source: International Journal of Educational Research

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2021.101913

Authors: Caroline Sahli Lozano, Sergej Wüthrich, Jonas Sebastian Büchi, Umesh Sharma

Institutions: Pädagogische Hochschule Bern, Monash University

Language: English

Topic: Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $1,870