Abstract

PONCE, Florlenis Chévez  and  TORRES, Martha Patricia Astudillo. Aplications of Classical Test Theory and Rasch model on a scale related to professoral university language. Acta Educ. [online]. 2018, vol.40, n.4, e42367. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v40i4.42367.

The paper shows the elaboration and application processes of an inedit scale that measures the characteristics of university teaching language in the respect of generating exclusion derived of the comunication in the classroom. The information was collected with a survey aplied to students of the major named “Teaching of Social Studies and Civic Education” at Teachers Formation School of Costa Rica University. For data analysis was used the Test Classical Theory, to do the first results filtering, and the Response Theory, specifically the Rasch Model, to analyse them and to consider adjusting both subjects examined and items. Main results give empirical evidence that the teacher’s language used in the learning and teaching process is a source of students exclusion. Besides, grouping ítems in two factors allow concluding that in the course of the classes a first factor refers to the actions the teacher executes to contents comprehension, and the second factor refers to the traits originated in such teacher’s actions; so, the conclussion is that there exists an inequitative trait in the classrooms of university education.

Keywords : exclusion; language; communication; interacting; manner and higher education.

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