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Recapitulating the research purpose, the study has sought to understand professional development considerations for the teaching of music traditions, the processes in a workshop that could enhance teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and perspectives, and how the integration of “pedagogy”, “practice”, and “perspective” increases teacher efficacy and teaching confidence in teaching local music traditions in the General Music Classroom.
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KMO test registers a value of 0.736 and the Bartlett’s test rejects the null hypothesis that the correlation matrix is an identity matrix, p < 0.001.
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The Exploratory Factor Analysis is used with Principal Axis Factoring extraction method. Two factors were identified from the scree plot and they explained 23.0 and 12.1 % of variance, respectively. Using Promax with Kaiser normalisation, the factors are 0.266 indicating that the factors are correlated. 11 variables load highly on factor 1, and 6 variables load highly on factor 2. 8 others do not load on either factor.
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Variables with coefficients less than 0.4 are not considered since they indicate cross-loadings and these items were dropped from further analyses.
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Measured for its reliability, the results indicated a reliability of greater than 0.89 for all categories: demonstrating and explaining music (five items; α = 0.90); facilitating music-making and learning (eight items; α = 0.90); and facilitating discussion and critical thinking (seven items; α = 0.92). The overall reliability of the instrument was high (20 items; α = 0.963).
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The KMO test registers a value of 0.914 (which indicated an adequate sample size for factor analysis) and the Bartlett’s test rejects the null hypothesis that the correlation matrix is an identity matrix (p < 0.001). The factor analysis is conducted through SPSS using Principal Axis Factoring extraction method.
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Lum, CH., Chua, S.L. (2016). Professional Learning Experiences from Participants’ Perspective. In: Teaching Living Legends. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1482-6_6
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