Indonesian Primary School Science in Practices: The Development of an Instrument for Assessing Teachers' Perspectives on Curriculum Reform

Abstract

The primary purpose of this study was to describe the development of an instrument for assessing primary school teachers’ perspective on the curriculum reform in Indonesia. A two-phase study, with different respondents for each phase, involved 367 primary school teachers. The first phase, which utilized a 25 item closed and opened-ended questionnaire involving 107 teachers, was used to identify teachers’ perspectives on the curriculum reform. In the second phase of the study, which was used to pilot-test the instrument; items were based on the results of the first phase. The 47 items with a five-point Likert response scale were administered to 260 primary school teachers. Construct validity was confirmed through factor analysis that resulted in 36 items and 3 scales for the final instrument. Analyses of the data showed reliabilities of the three scales ranging from 0.78 to 0.62.