Researching Teachers' Beliefs: Practical Methods
English Language Teacher Beliefs - Farahnaz Faez
Farahnaz Faez [+]
University of Western Ontario
Farahnaz Faez is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Michael Karas [+]
University of Western Ontario
Michael Karas is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Description
This chapter looks at the various ways teachers’ beliefs can be examined, expanding on some of the reflective exercises from the previous chapter. The purpose of this chapter is to look at different ways teachers’ beliefs can be ‘measured’, but not necessarily from a formal academic research perspective. While there will be crossover, this chapter seeks to describe various ways teacher beliefs can be assessed by teachers themselves and/or teacher educators on teacher education programs. Previous publications have outlined various methods (e.g. S. Borg, 2015; Schraw & Olafson, 2015, etc.), but this chapter focusses on practical strategies that can be used to assess teachers’ beliefs with a consideration towards reflective practice.