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

Table 8

Degree of agreement about traits of the school culture (1 = not at all; 7 = very much in ).

	Component items	Factor loadings
Factor 1: shared responsibility and collaborative culture; Mean: 5.23; SD: 1.43; Cronbach Alpha: 0.8616	There is a culture of shared responsibility for school; There is a collaborative school culture which is characterised by mutual	0,832; 0,910
Factor 2: school community participation in decision and projects; Mean: 4.97, SD: 1.28; Cronbach Alpha: 0.8283	The school provides students with opportunities to actively participate in school; The school provides parents or guardians with opportunities to actively participate in school; The school provides teachers with opportunities to actively participate in school	0,857; 0,813; 0,723
Factor 3: individualism and lack of professional interaction; Mean: 3.52, SD: 1.65; Cronbach Alpha: 0.5663	Working relationships among teachers are characterised by individualism; Professional issues are rarely discussed	0,836; 0,472
Factor 4: inclusion and citizenship; Mean: 5.91, SD: 1.11; Cronbach Alpha: 0.7565	Teachers are concerned to offer a good citizenship education; Teachers show constant concern to facilitate inclusion of students, recognising their differences and supporting them	0,695; 0,881
Model fit statistics: RMSEA: 0,054; CFI: 0,974; SRMR: 0,029

on Forte and Flores [3] questionnaire.