Construcción de una escala sobre igualdad de género percibida en la escuela

Abstract

The estimation with standardized tests on the teachers' belief about the current situation of gender equality in the classrooms is of interest to establish predictions about the real practice of sexist behaviors in schools. The objective of this work was to validate a scale to know, from the subjective assessment of the teachers, the behaviors present in the school that act as transmitters of sexist content in the hidden curriculum. For the construction of this instrument, an initial review was carried out by 11 experts. Then, a pilot study, in which 221 teachers from educational centers in the Community of Madrid participated, were conducted. The reliability and validity of the scale was examined. The results showed that the internal consistency of the instrument generated a Cronbach's α value higher than .84. The factor analysis showed five factors that explained 54.5% of the variance. The psychometric properties of the scale were adequate to measure teachers' perception of behaviors that transmit sexist content at school. Thus, a future line of research is opened to detect beliefs by means of this instrument, and to correct sexist behaviors in educational centers.