Design and validate the scale teachers' disciplinary strategies

Document Type : Original Article

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This research was performed with the aim to design and validate the scale teachers' disciplinary strategies. For research, The method collect comments of teachers and thematic analysis to build scale, and Correlation- survey method was used to validate the designed scale. This research includes two sample for the first goal 43 teachers of purposive sampling method and The second purpose were selected 354 teachers as the subjects to multi-stage stratified cluster sampling method. For data collection were used two researcher made tools. The first questionnaire was consisted one open question in which of the teacher first sample was asked up to list their discipline strategies in class. The second questionnaire was 35-item scale that its items had been elected through thematic analysis and based on the opinions of teachers from discipline strategies. To determine the components of the questionnaire, was used exploratory factor analysis and principal component and varimax orthogonal rotation analysis method. Exploratory factor analysis showed that teachers' disciplinary strategies are classified into seven types of strategies that include: Custody (direct), prevention-based legislation, human (indirectly), rapid response, based on relation and recognition, non-verbal and sample and modeling.

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