Developing an SEM of Teacher Professional Development Standards (TPD) for Teacher - Students in Terms of Their Information Literacy (IL)

The present research aims to develop an SEM of Teacher Professional Development (TPD) standards on the basis of Farhangian University (Teacher Traning College) teacher - students` Information Literacy (IL). The method in the current quantitative research is correlational through path analysis, which is based on structural equation modeling. To this end, Smart - PLS software and GOF Index were employed to develop an SEM and to determine goodness - of - fit, respectively. The sample comprised 1080 teacher - students of the total 1500 studying different courses in the branches of Farhangian University. All participants have passed mentoring(1,2,3,&4). The two questionnaires employed measure Information Literacy (IL) and Teacher Professional Development (TPD) based on the International Standard of Information Literacy for Teacher Education and New Jersey Teacher Professional Development, respectively. The results indicated an appropriate GOF (0. 488) for the proposed SEM and the confirmation of the proposed model. The resultant validated questionnaires can be employed to raise consciousness among teachers and to replicate the study by using other samples of teachers across the country. Two Information Literacy (IL) and Teacher Professional Development (TPD) Questionnaires were also obtained.