CONSTRUCTION AND STANDARDIZATION OF TEACHING COMPETENCY SCALE (TCS) FOR PRE SERVICE TEACHERS

Abstract

The Teaching Competency Scale (TCS) has been constructed and standardized to measure the Teaching Competency of the Pre-service Teachers. The items were constructed based on the Likert’s five point scale. Initially the scale consists of seventy items. The pilot study was conducted with one hundred and fifty pre-service teachers, randomly selected from seven B.Ed colleges located in Villupuram district. The responses thus collected were analysed by using statistical techniques. The scores of the item that satisfies ‘t’ value alone were taken for the main study. Out of the seventy items, twenty one items were not selected and the remaining forty nine items were taken for main study. The reliability of the tool was found to be 0.93 by using Chronbach alpha method. Further the validity of the tool was established by using face validity method.