IOC, an instrument for the qualification of teaching performance in the classroom: Generation and validation

Abstract

This work is framed in an investigation that studies to what extent the practical formation influences professors' performance when initiating their professional exercise. This article reports the creation and validation process of an evaluation instrument which allows establishing, starting from classroom observation, the performance level shown by inexperienced professors in tasks of conducting and evaluating teaching-learning processes. The results demonstrate that the instrument is valid in its content as it has an appropriate language according to the national context, and of easy understanding, fidelity with the original instrument, coherence with the study's intentions and technical solidity. The empirical validation, in addition to establish the measurements' consistency between observers, allowed to establish the instrument's usage feasibility in the national context and to identify its application difficulties that could harm the produced information's objectivity.