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Creative Personality Factors and Practices Among Mathematics Teachers: Principal Component Analysis Approach (PCA)

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Nazeri Mohammad, Shuhari A Razak, Rosnizam Kamis, Muhammad A Haron
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Available Online January 2017.
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10.2991/icmsed-16.2017.13How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Creative teaching practices; creative personality factors; Mathematics; analysis principal components; factor analysis.
Abstract

The practice of effective teaching is associated with the creative nature which is not just teachers plan learning activities, but also includes elements of creativity in the teaching process in the classroom. This study aims to make testing for the instrument creative teaching practices among Mathematics teachers in secondary schools in the northern and central regions of Peninsular Malaysia using sectional survey using a questionnaire creative teaching practices from the perspective of the teacher. A total of 260 mathematics teachers selected by cluster sampling various levels. The principal component analysis (principal component analysis, PCA) was used by SPSS version 20. Results of the analysis showed that the data does not have a serious problem of multicollinearity; it allows the items may be carried out next factor analysis. Therefore Instruments Personality Factor Questionnaire and Creative Teaching Element developed is suitable for studying the creative teaching practices among secondary school teachers of mathematics in Peninsular Malaysia.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Mathematics and Science Education
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
January 2017
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978-94-6252-295-4
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2352-5398
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10.2991/icmsed-16.2017.13How to use a DOI?
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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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