The implicit meaning of TIMSS: Exploring ethics in teachers’ practice

Orly Shapira – Lishchinsky

doi:10.1016/j.tate.2018.12.013

The implicit meaning of TIMSS: Exploring ethics in teachers’ practice

Orly Shapira – Lishchinsky

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Abstract

This study explored whether the TIMSS 2015 teacher questionnaires reflects shared perceptions of ethics in teachers' practice. Quantitative analysis of teachers' responses to TIMSS questionnaires, from 45 countries, yielded a four-dimensional structure of the concept “ethics in teachers' practice”: caring about students' learning, interacting with colleagues, respecting the rules, and teacher professionalism. Our results support the idea that perceived ethical behavior among teachers exhibits both universal perspectives, as well as particularistic, national ones. The findings can help teachers develop awareness concerning ethics in their profession, and may encourage assessment of ethics in teachers’ practice by using TIMSS teacher questionnaires.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	188-197
Number of pages	10
Journal	Teaching and Teacher Education
Volume	79
Early online date	4 Jan 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2018.12.013
State	Published - Mar 2019

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This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 701911 .

Funders	Funder number
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions	701911

Keywords

Cross-national perspective
Ethics
TIMSS 2015
Teachers' practice

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