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Doqaruni, Vahid Rahmani; Ghonsooly, Behzad; Pishghadam, Reza – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
Purpose: Although action research (AR) is considered essential for teacher development in second/foreign language (L2) education, no validated scale has been designed for its measurement. With that in mind, this study attempted to develop and validate an Inventory on Teachers' Beliefs about Action Research (ITBAR). Design/methodology/approach: For…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Measures (Individuals), Action Research, Validity
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Naji Meidani, Elham; Pishghadam, Reza; Ghonsooly, Behzad; Hosseini Fatemi, Azar – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
The purpose of this study was to design and validate a scale to measure language teachers' temporal intelligence and to explore its role in teacher burnout. To this aim, 210 English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers, teaching at different language institutes were asked to complete two questionnaires: the newly-designed language teachers' temporal…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intelligence
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Pishghadam, Reza; Khosropanah, Farnoush – International Education Studies, 2011
The major purpose of this study was to examine the construct validity of English Language Teachers Competency Test (ELT-CT) designed by Pishghadam, Baghaei and Shahriari (2010). In this study, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used to examine the construct validity of the test. The results have shown that the underlying factors of the test are…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Teacher Competency Testing, English (Second Language), English Teachers
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Pishghadam, Reza; Noghani, Mohsen; Zabihi, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2011
The present study was conducted to construct and validate a questionnaire of social and cultural capital in the foreign language context of Iran. To this end, a questionnaire was designed by picking up the most frequently-used indicators of social and cultural capital. The Factorability of the intercorrelation matrix was measured by two tests:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Cultural Capital, Social Capital