Psychometric properties of the Ohio University Teachers' Assessment Standards Questionnaire and the status of teachers in these standards

The fundamental and sustainable transformation in any society depends on the evolution of the education system of that society and the main axis of the evolution and development of the education system is to improve the quality of teacher work and recognize their characteristics. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Ohio University Teachers' Assessment Standards Questionnaire and to assess the status of teachers in these standards.

The present study is among the quantitative researches in terms of data collection method and is among the descriptive and psychometric studies in terms of analysis method. The statistical population of the study included all teachers in Rashtkhar (450 people) who selected 200 people as a sample by simple random sampling and participated in the study. Data were collected in this study using the Ohio University Assessment Standards Questionnaire (2000) with a reliability coefficient of 0.87. In order to analyze the data, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, Pearson correlation and total question-score correlation and reliability analysis using SPSSV22 software were used.

The results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the eight-factor structure, which explains 69.998% of teacher evaluation standards. Among the identified factors, the teacher's deep understanding of the teaching content with 9.82% and the design of long-term and daily programs with 9.598% had the highest factor load. The results of one-sample t-test also showed that the teachers surveyed in the research are in good condition in terms of all evaluation standards.

Finally, considering the desired validity and reliability coefficients, ease of implementation, grading and interpretation, as well as a short time to answer, it can be said that the questionnaire of evaluation standards of teachers qualified to be used in research. Psychology is to measure the extent of these standards.