Construction and validation of Leading Inclusive Education in Compulsory Education Questionnaire (LIE-Q-Teaching Team)

ABSTRACT

The objective of this work is to create, and validate, a questionnaire aimed at assessing those actions undertaken by school management teams to promote inclusion in compulsory education sector in Spain. It is based on the perspective of teaching teams (members of management teams and teachers). To determine the psychometric properties of the questionnaire a descriptive, exploratory factorial and confirmatory factorial analysis was performed. In the pilot phase of the instrument, 243 members of teaching teams participated. The results obtained confirm that it is a valid and reliable scale with a bifactorial structure. The first of these factors includes actions carried out by the management teams to energise inclusive culture in their schools and thus turn them into inclusive communities. The other set of actions includes interventions with the aim of improving the training of students and creating professional learning communities.

KEYWORDS:

• School principals
• teachers
• inclusion
• leadership evaluation
• school improvements

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union and from the Junta de Andalucía (Spain) [grant number B-SEJ-057-UGR18].

Notes on contributors

M. Carmen López-López

M. Carmen López-López has a doctorate in Pedagogy and is a professor at the University of Granada (Spain). She is a teacher at the Department of Didactics and School Organization. Her main lines of research are initial training and teacher professional development, inclusion, intercultural education and university teaching.

M. José León-Guerrero

M. José León Guerrero has a doctorate in Pedagogy and is a professor at the University of Granada. She is a professor at the Faculty of Education Sciences (Department of Didactics and School Organization) and director of the research team HUM-386: F.O.R.C.E. – School-Centred Teacher Training (F.O.R.C.E). Her main research interests include inclusive education, teacher training and research in higher education and teaching innovation.

Eva F. Hinojosa-Pareja

Eva F. Hinojosa-Pareja has a degree in Pedagogy, a Master’s degree in Research and Innovation in Curriculum and Training, and a doctorate from the University of Granada. Her main research interests include inter-cultural education, inclusion and peace culture, initial teacher training, research in higher education and teaching innovation.