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Cunha & Albuquerque’s (2017) Supervisor’s Core Competencies Scale (SCoreCS) was designed to
assess the ideal skills that college students expect their mentor teacher to master. The development of
educational pedagogic and academic research in this field is of vital importance considering the lack of
updated background knowledge of this topic. In view of this, the following question was raised: What is
the Supervisor’s Core Competencies Scale internal consistency quality? This study sought to evaluate the
psychometric properties, namely the factorial structure and the internal consistency of the Supervisor’s
Core Competencies Scale. A cross - sectional study was conducted, after the Ethics Committee’s
approval. The internal consistency study and the confirmatory factor analysis of the SCoreCS were
developed using a sample of 306 students (81.7% of them were women) with an average age of 21.15.
The SCoreCS internal consistency study revealed the existence of three (3) factors/subscales: 1) Personal
Factors (α=0.979); 2) Interpersonal/Communication Factors (α=0.946); and 3) Performance Factors
(α=0.936). A Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.972 was found for the global 21-items SCoreCS. Female
students value the supervisor’s personal competencies more, while male students prefer the interpersonal
competencies which revealed statistically significant differences. The youngest students (≤19) value all
the different kinds of competencies which revealed statistically significant differences when compared to
the other age groups. This research constitutes a first step in the study of the psychometric properties of
the SCoreCS using a sample of the Portuguese population. The values of internal consistency in the
different subscales and in the global score were found to be quite robust. The results suggest that the
identification of personal, interpersonal/communicational and performance competencies should be
considered in the assessment of the teachers' pedagogical practices. These findings will also foster the
development of future research that will support a more contemporary pedagogical supervision in which
innovation would be applied to college didactics.
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Keywords
Factorial structure Competencies Teachers Supervision Mentor
Citation
Cunha, M., Duarte, J., & Albuquerque, C. (2018). The factorial structure of the supervisor’s core competencies scale. The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences, 12-27. https://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2018.10.2
Publisher
Future Academy