Measuring Teacher Engagement: Development of the Engaged Teachers Scale (ETS)
By Robert M. Klassen, Sündüs Yerdelen, Tracy L. Durksen. 2013
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The goal of this study was to create and validate a brief multi-dimension scale of teacher engagement—the Engaged Teachers Scale (ETS)—that reflects the particular characteristics of teachers’ work in schools. We collected data from four separate samples of teachers (total N = 823), and followed five steps in developing and validating the ETS. The result of our five steps of analysis was a 16-item, 4-factor scale of teacher engagement that shows evidence of reliability, validity, and usability for further research. The four factors of the ETS consist of: cognitive engagement, emotional engagement, social engagement: students, and social engagement: colleagues. The ETS was found to correlate positively with a frequently used work engagement measure (the UWES) and to be positively related to, but empirically distinct, from a measure of teachers’ self-efficacy. Our key contribution to the measurement of teacher engagement is the novel inclusion of social engagement with students as a key component of overall engagement at work for teachers. We propose that social engagement should be considered in future iterations of work engagement measures in a range of settings.
Subfields: Education
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Citations in the corpus
- Teacher emotions in the classroom: associations with students’ engagement, classroom discipline and the interpersonal teacher-student relationship (2015, methodology): “A “closeness” scale, adapted from Ang (2005) and Pianta (2001), measured students’ relational behaviour reflecting the interpersonal TSR. Recently, Klassen et al. (2013) have developed a similar scale called “social engagement,” a sub-scale of the “Engaged Teacher Scale.””
- Teachers’ well-being and job satisfaction: the important role of positive emotions in the workplace (2021, background): “Teaching is a profession with high demands for social engagement (Klassen, Yelderen, and Durksen 2013).”
- Do Teacher Status, Gender, and Years of Teaching Experience Impact Job Satisfaction and Work Engagement? (2020, methodology): “Work engagement was measured using the 15-item scale adopted from Klassen et al. (2013).”