Measuring pre-service teachers’ feedback literacy: scale development and validation

Abstract

Despite the importance of feedback literacy, research and practice of feedback literacy for pre-service teachers (PSTs) have remained scarce. To address this gap, the present study developed and validated a Feedback Literacy Scale for Pre-service Teachers (FLSPSTs). Results show that 1) the FLSPSTs has psychometrically sound reliability and validity; and 2) it consists of 26 items and seven factors, namely conceptions of feedback, contextual knowledge about feedback, feedback operation, teacher’s emotions in feedback, attitudes towards feedback, pupils’ emotions in feedback and strategic knowledge about feedback. The FLSPSTs differentiates from the existing teacher feedback literacy scales with a highlight of the cognition and disposition dimensions of PSTs’ feedback literacy, as well as an addition of PSTs’ intrinsic emotion regulation in feedback as an important component of their feedback literacy. This study has implications for the assessment and training of PSTs’ feedback literacy.