Share Paper: Cross-cultural adaptation of the French version of the Teaching Perspectives Inventory: a large-scale validation study with a sample of French or English speakers

  1. Julien Mercier, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
  2. Colette Deaudelin, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
  3. Monique Brodeur, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
  4. Sonia Lefebvre, University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Canada
Thursday, March 24 4:15-4:45 PM Vernon

Abstract: Teachers’ decisions regarding their use of technologies in the classroom may be better understood by considering an important basis of their decision-making: their conceptions of what teaching is about. Such conceptions, termed “teaching perspectives” by major authors, can be measured by self-report questionnaires. Such an instrument, the Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI), has been developed and validated. This study is a milestone in the French adaptation of the TPI, in which its equivalence with the original version in English was tested. Comparisons of responses from large sub-samples of French or English speakers point to minor cultural differences, which may interact with ...