La evaluación docente en la pedagogía Montessori: propuesta de un instrumento

The purpose of the study was to design, construct and validate the contents of an instrument that can be used to evalu-
ate the performance of teachers at a Montessori school. The instrument was validated for pertinence, coherence and the
drafting of each item. The assessment was done by three expert judges. Their reliability was determined through the con-
cordance coefficient or Kappa index, which was high (complete agreement). Based on the results, 27 out of 102 proposed
items were eliminated and 75 were left in the instrument to be applied. The focus of the instrument is on the dimensions
of the teacher in terms of being, knowing, knowing how and being able to understand. A pilot application was done with
30 participants who teach at the Montessori British School, which is an institution that uses the Montessori method of
education. In the analysis of internal consistency, obtained with Cronbach’s alpha, the coefficients were high for all the
dimensions evaluated (average .88)