Abstract

VERA BACHMANN, Daniela  and  MENESES CLAVERO, Paulina. Elaboration of a rural teacher’s scale that measures beliefs about educational process, CAPE-R. liber. [online]. 2012, vol.18, n.2, pp.183-193. ISSN 1729-4827.

This article presents the construction and preliminary validation of a scale designed for rural teachers, whose objective is to measure these underlying beliefs about the educational process. The process included its aplication to 300 rural teachers in the Región de la Araucanía, Chile. The instrument shows adequate levels of reliability, and evidences a multidimensional construct, composed by four dimensions of beliefs, about the educational process. The results suggest a profile of rural teacher, with a strong beliefs in: the importance of achieving significant learning, of horizontal relationships with their students, and being proactive in addressing the challenges that rural education presents. The instrument is intended as a tool for the study of beliefs in the field of rural education, contributing to the investigation of one of the variables that has the greatest impact in the educational process, and the quality of learning.

Keywords : Beliefs; Rural Education; Teacher’s Role.

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