Article: development and validation of a scale to evaluate the class planning and teaching self-regulation in higher education

This research aimed at creating and validating a scale (CLEA-SR) to evaluate class planning and teaching self-regulation of individuals based on self-regulated learning. This is applied exploratory research with a quantitative approach involving 283 respondents from Brazil, with different graduate degrees (master, master ongoing, PhD, PhD ongoing). Experts’ committees participated to find validity evidence. Data Analyses were descriptive analysis, validity evidence based on content, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, reliability and accuracy. Good values for reliability, a large correlation with the teaching self-efficacy scale, validity evidence based on content, and internal structures were found. CLEA-SR might be used as a pre-post evaluation instrument to structure faculty development programs in diverse courses in universities, mainly in research-intensive institutions where teaching is less acknowledged. This is the principal investigator’s (PI) doctoral thesis in The School of Civil Engineering, in the Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urban Design department, of Unicamp, Brazil.