Analysing Teachers' Professional Practices with TALIS Data

Chapter 3 details the factors that this report studied. Drawing on socioconstructivist approaches to teaching practices and professional learning communities, discussed in Chapter 2, questions drawn from the TALIS 2008 teacher and school questionnaires were chosen for further analyses. The main themes covered by TALIS 2008: the teachers’ professional development, the type of appraisal and feedback they receive, their activities and attitudes, and schools’ leadership and management styles. The aim was to characterise the underlying profiles of teaching practices and participation in learning communities in each of the 23 countries that participated in TALIS 2008. For this purpose, multilevel latent profile analysis was applied.