QUESTIONNAIRE ON THE ROLE OF TEACHING STAFF IN UNIVERSITY ORGANIZATIONS: DESIGN AND VALIDATION IN THE FRAME OF THE EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA

The purpose of this research is to design and validate a questionnaire to measure the perceptions, attitudes and behaviors of university teaching staff regarding their teaching practice and their relationship with students in the framework of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and considering certain essential concepts for academic performance in line with goal 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The questionnaire has two purposes: 1) to promote ways that teachers can engage in self-assessment and thus increase the quality of teaching-learning processes and 2) to help guide teachers on the path towards continuous improvement and methodological and competency innovation. The initial draft of the questionnaire had 11 dimensions consisting of 72 items, which after a limited psychometric analysis was reduced to only 2 dimensions with 20 items, corresponding to the questionnaire tested on a sample of 360 teachers from universities throughout Spain. Analysis of the responses revealed three factors with high reliability: comprehensive training; training in values; and pedagogical innovation and ICTs. The results indicate that this questionnaire has a clear and reliable validity for use in the university environment, given that it has factors closely connected both with the principles of the EHEA and with Goal 4 of the SDGs.