Teacher Informal Collaboration for Professional Improvement: Beliefs, Contexts, and Experience

Table 5

Teacher beliefs about the focus of teaching for learning (1 = not important; 4 = very important.

	Component items	Factor loadings
Factor 1: student oriented; Mean: 3,74; SD: 0,36; Cronbach Alpha: 0.728	Students, where relevant learn cooperatively in groups	0,641
	Students develop their skills and competences	0,832
	To relate to students’ own knowledge and experience	0,880
	To consider the differences in aptitudes and interests among students	0,727
Factor 2: subject matter oriented; Mean: 3.67; SD: 0.42; Cronbach Alpha: 0.7816	Pass on subject matter to students	0,799
	The content of my lessons should be good	0,767
	Students acquire knowledge	0,800
	Students learn the content of my subject matter	0,872
Model fit statistics: RMSEA: 0,054; CFI: 0,985; WRMR: 0,993

based on De Vries et al. [20] questionnaire.