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

Table 7

Degree of agreement about quality of parent and student role in school. Teachers’ views (1 = not at all; 7 = very much in agreement.

	Component items	Factor loadings
Factor 1: teacher views on parents; (i) Mean: 3.87; SD: 1.56; (ii) Cronbach Alpha: 0.7927	Parental involvement supports learning	0,894
	Parents are reliable in their commitments	0,942
	Teachers trust parents	0,852
	Parents of students encourage good habits of study	0,815
Factor 2: teachers views on students; (i) Mean: 5.15, SD: 1.17; (ii) Cronbach Alpha: 0.8207	Teachers trust their students	0,73
	Students can be counted on to do their work	0,822
	Students are caring towards one another	0,789
	Students respect those who get good results	0,597
Model fit statistics: RMSEA: 0,095; CFI: 0,943; SRMR: 0,04

on questionnaire in Belfi et al. [22].