The Initial Development of the Factors to Influence the Maker Teachers' Acceptance of Maker Education Scale

Abstract

Maker education is a hot trend in primary and secondary education, and it is an important means to cultivate students' cooperation, sharing and innovation abilities. Teacher is a very critical factor. Whether the maker teachers are willing to accept maker education can have a direct impact on the quality of the effective implementation of maker education. However, previous studies paid more attention to the connotation, characteristics and practical programs of the maker education, and less on the teachers' perspective on the acceptance of the maker education. Especially lack of relevant studies from the empirical perspective to verify the implementation of it indicates the need to study and develop the "Factors to Influence the Maker Teachers' Acceptance of Maker Education Scale". In this study, 21 items were prepared by reviewing the literature. Then, the study invited six experts for amendment, and selected 40 maker teachers to take part in the primary scale development study. The data were processed in SPSS 20.0 and AMOS 21.0. The results showed that the scale was composed of five dimensions and 14 items. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient value of the scale was 0.895, indicating that the reliability was good. At the same time, the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the scale had good convergent validity and discriminant validity, with the limit of the sample size.