Designing Standard Tools to Measure the health and knowledge Level of Kindergarten Teachers

Teachers are the most important element of the educational system; their competence can play a decisive role in optimizing educational processes. The purpose of this study was to design standard tools in order to measure the health and knowledge of kindergarten teachers.

The research method was quantitative-qualitative and the statistical population of this study included all kindergarten teachers in Tehran Province. In the quantitative part, the research method was descriptive and the participants included 1133 kindergarten teachers who were selected by Quota. In the qualitative part, the method of multi mini-interviews (MMI) was used. In line with sampling in the qualitative part, 62 trainers were selected by availability. In the quantitative section, 129 questions were prepared to assess the knowledge level. Emotional Intelligence (Bar-on), Mental Health (BSI) and Spiritual Health (Abolmaali and Musazadeh) instruments were used to measure teachers' health. In the interview part, the qualifications of a number of teachers were re-evaluated through multi mini-interviews (MMI) in four stations (health, resume, knowledge and administrative rules).

The results obtained in the quantitative part of the research showed that 62 questions from the set of questions had appropriate psychometric properties to assess the knowledge of kindergarten teachers. The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that the instrument of spiritual health consisted of two components: faith in God and self-control. The factor structure of emotional intelligence and mental health instruments was examined through confirmatory factor analysis and the results of model fitness indices showed that the data were consistent with the theory and the scales used had suitable psychometric properties for evaluation of kindergarten teachers.

In general, it can be said that the instruments prepared in the present study can be used as standard scales to measure the health and knowledge of kindergarten teachers.