Questionnaire

Appendices
Appendix1a: Teacher Questionnaire (English Version)
Dear respondent,
The aim of this questionnaire is to investigate the impact of teacher collaboration on teacher professional development. Please feel free to fill accurately the questionnaire below; your responses will be used only for the purpose of the study with greater confidentiality and anonymity. It will take you not more than 15 minutes to fill this questionnaire.
Instructions
1.This questionnaire has five sections; 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
2.Please answer all questions in every section.
SECTION 1: Personal Information
Please mark [x] your right information.
1.your Gender: Male [ ] Female [ ]
2.your Age: 19-25Years [ ] 26-32 Years [ ] 33-39 Years [ ]≥ 40 Years
[ ]
3.your Education level: Certificate [ ] Diploma [ ] Bachelor Degree [ ] Master
Degree [ ]
4.your Teaching experience: 0-3 Years [ ] 4-6 Years [ ] 7-9 Years [ ] 10-15 Years[]
16-20 years[] ≥20years[]
5.your Teaching subject: ................................. (Write down).
6. 您的职称：中学正高级[ ] 中学副高级[ ] 中学一级[ ] 中学二级[ ] 中学三级[ ] （professor added this, but it is difficult for me to translate into English）
7.Position: Mark [x] your position or write down if not included.
SECTION 2: Teacher Collaboration Information
a)Forms of teacher collaboration. (
Mark [x] all forms you have at your school and write down others if they are not included in the table below.(This part can be cancelled because it is quite the same as the practice of teacher collaboration)
b)Teacher collaboration practices.
Mark [x] all practices you have in your collaboration and write down others if they are not included in the table below.
c)Conditions for teacher collaboration.
Please respond by marking [x] all items given below as you feel their appropriate for the conditions of teacher collaboration at your school.
SECTION 3: Impact of Teacher Collaboration on Teacher Professional Development (Pedagogical skills and knowledge as well as Social Support)
Please, mark [x] all items in the table below in the given space by using the scales: Strongly Disagree (SD), Disagree (D), Agree (A), Strongly Agree (SA)
SECTION 4: Challenges toward meeting teacher collaboration for teacher Professional development
Please, mark [x] all items in the table below in the given space by using the scales: Strongly Disagree (SD), Disagree (D), Agree (A), Strongly Agree (SA)
SECTION 5: Views/opinions on how to improve teacher collaboration for teacher professional development.
What are your opinions to improve teacher collaboration for teacher professional development? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Thank you for your pleasing participation!
Appendix 2a: Interview Guide (English Version)
This interview guide is aiming to collect in deep information about the impact of teacher collaboration on teacher professional development from middle school teachers in Changchun city, Jilin, China.
I.Background Information
Gender, Level of Education, Teaching Experience, Teaching Subject,Administrative Position and Professional Status.
II.Interview questions
1.In what ways do teachers collaborate?
2.In a development trend, how did/does teacher collaboration change (s) overtime? In case
of;
a)Management system
b)School or government support
c)Teachers’ participation
3.Do you think the Chinese educational administrative system favours teachers to
collaborate? How?
4.What are the effects of societal Chinese culture in teacher collaboration?
5.Does teacher collaboration affect teacher professional development? How?
6.Are there any challanges in your collaboration? What are they?
7.What should be done to improve teacher collaboration?。