Pre-service Physical Education Techer Concerns about Teaching Students with Disabilities: Instrument Modification and Validation

ABSTRACT

This three-phase study aimed to modify the Concerns about Inclusive Education Scale (CIES) under the Physical Education (PE) setting and to determine if the modified scale was reliable and valid. A total of 645 pre-service teachers (522 males and 123 females) from three universities participated in this study. In Phase 1, the CIES was revised, translated, and renamed to CIES-PE. In Phase 2, the content validity of the CIES-PE was tested by six experts. In phase 3, the construct validity of the CIES-PE was established through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and group invariance test across samples with and without adapted PE training experience. Results supported a five-factor, 24-item CIES-PE scale. In conclusion, the CIES-PE may be utilised as a reliable and valid instrument to assess the concerns of pre-service PE teachers about teaching students with disabilities in general PE classes.

KEYWORDS:

• Inclusive education
• physical education
• reliability
• teacher concern
• validity

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Key Project of the Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology [grant number 18080503300] and National Social Science Foundation of China [grant number 17BTY080].