Evaluation of psychometric properties of the Art Education Curriculum Orientation Questionnaire in Elementary School Teachers

The purpose of this study was to standardize the Art education curriculum orientation questionnaire for primary school teachers and the method was survey research. In this study, the original version of the Filani art education curriculum orientation questionnaire (2003) translated to Persian and it re-translated and corrected. Then, final form was prepared for implementation. The statistical society included all primary school teachers in Mashhad in the academic year 2020-2021 (13259 people) that 360 teachers participated in the study. The validity of the questionnaire was evaluated from three aspects of content reliability, structure and correlation between subscales. Examination of the comment of experts and teachers indicated the content reliability of this tool. In order to evaluate the construct reliability, the factor structure of the questionnaire was evaluated by confirmatory factor analysis with maximum likelihood method at the level of covariance matrix and the results showed that the confirmation model has an acceptable fit. Also, all extracted factor loads were higher than 0.40 and the distribution of questions in the subscales was approved. The correlation coefficients between subscales also showed that there are good internal relationships between subscales (P <0.001). To assess the validity of the art education curriculum orientation questionnaire, internal consistency was assessed and Cronbach's alpha coefficients for child-centered, disciplinary and cultural subscales were 0.87, 0.88 and 0.87. According to the findings, it can be said that the art education curriculum orientation questionnaire has desirable psychometric indicators.