Innovation in teaching practice as a formula for school improvement and success
an empirical study
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https://doi.org/10.5380/atoz.v14.94193Keywords:
Teachers, Educational innovation, School improvement, Contingency analysisAbstract
The research work presented here aims to collaborate in one of the most vital fields of study in the field of education today: methodological innovation in teaching practice as a formula for school improvement and success. Our aim was to find out how teachers view methodological innovation and its application as a recurrent element in their daily teaching practice; and specifically, to find out whether there is any relationship between the conception of innovation as a value for teaching practice and teachers' gender, age, teaching experience and training in innovation according to the educational level to which they belong. We used the descriptive method and applied a self-developed questionnaire "Questionnaire on teachers' perceptions of pedagogical innovation and creativity in practice", which we subjected to Cronbach's alpha for reliability (.830) and to expert and single-case analysis for validation. A sample of 357 teachers from Pre-school, Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education and Training participated. Contingency analysis was applied and the results showed that educational innovation, as a formula for school improvement and success, was related in different ways depending on the variables considered at each educational level.
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