¿Qué es lo que importa en educación para la ciudadanía?: evaluación de un cuestionario para profesores

Abstract

The Education for Citizenship and Human Rights was incorporated (2007) to the Spanish official curriculum as an autonomous subject, which any pupil in primary or secondary education has to do. Obviously, when it comes to such a social and educational change, teachers are meant to be a basic part of this process, especially because this subject has not been studied initially and there are very few Lifelong Learning plans based on an assessment of needs. That is why, trying to find out what teachers think, the authors have carried out a study, based on a questionnaire to this purpose, focusing on teachers’ knowledge and attitudes towards this particular curriculum situation. This article is aimed at assessing the technical quality of the items, reliability, construct validity and predictive validity of the factorial measurement instrument proposed. Furthermore, we carried out an item analysis in terms of difficulty and discrimination. The instrument has been applied to a sample of 796 teachers of primary and secondary education. After the analysis, the questionnaire was categorically demonstrated as valid for the purpose for which it was planned.