Student teachers and epistemic beliefs and emotions

Abstract

This data set contains:(1) PDF copy of online survey(2) an SPSS file with raw data from survey study(3) MS Word file with results of tests conducted using SPSS and further detail of latent profile analysis.(4) Mplus input files

The SPSS file contains the responses to a survey study (n=376), that gathered data from student teachers on different initial teacher education courses in England that addressed the following research question:
Are there differences in student teachers' epistemic beliefs and epistemic emotions relating to educational research between• females and males,• students following university-led and school-led ITE routes,• primary and secondary student teachers,• postgraduate and undergraduate student teachers• students with science and non-science backgrounds,• ‘mature’ and ‘typically aged’ students?The MS Word file provides the results of tests conducted to investigate statistically significant correlations between different demographics and epistemic beliefs and emotions.This MS Word file contains:(1) independent samples t-test outputs which investigated correlations and statistical significance between epistemic beliefs and emotions with student teachers' gender, initial teacher education pathway, subject specialism, age phase specialism and ages;(2) One-way between-subjects ANOVA results for primary undergraduate, primary postgraduate and secondary postgraduate students;(3) A summary table of statistically significant results from (2) with results of the post hoc tests using the Bonferroni correction(4) Bi-variate correlations between different epistemic beliefs and emotions;(5) Internal consistency estimates for the five domains of epistemic beliefs and emotions.
In addition, the study aimed to investigate whether distinct profiles of student teachers emerged based on different epistemic beliefs and emotions and whether profile indicators correlated with demographic differences.
The M Plus input files used for latent profile analysis are provided, in addition to the four profile outputs with co-variates. Further details about the MPlus data analysis are provided within the MS Word document to supplement those in the linked journal paper.