Estudi de la satisfacció docent del professorat universitari. Procés de validació d'un instrument per a la seva mesura.

Abstract

This work has been conducted within the framework of an interuniversity research group (UAB and UCM), focused on university teaching and led by teachers Domènech and Polaino, co-directors of this thesis. It tackles the issue of teaching satisfaction in university teachers with the aim of highlighting its importance for a high quality university education and, in short, for the excellence of the university. The model of university we have in mind is that of a university committed to the current society through the training of prospective professionals by educating them both in knowledge and in values and attitudes. Besides, teaching satisfaction is also an important factor as an alternative to the large amount of works focusing on teaching distress. This is why we want to show aspects that result in teaching satisfaction and, therefore, have a positive repercussion on the teachers well-being and health. Part of this work aims at studying the psychometrical properties of the Teaching Satisfaction in Teachers Scale (ESP), a measurement tool designed by teachers Polaino and Domènech. Humanistic Psychology is the theoretical framework that supports this thesis, as the model of teacher resulting from the construct teaching satisfaction at the base of ESP fits this theory perfectly well. This scale is intended to be a self-assessment tool, as well as a tool to help us identify aspects that may improve ones own teaching satisfaction. In order to study the reliability and validity of ESP, a sample of university teachers from different Faculties in the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), University of Barcelona (UB), and Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) was used. From the quantitative and qualitative data provided by these teachers, the multi-dimensional nature of the construct teaching satisfaction has been confirmed, the dimensionality of the factors according to which the ESP items were initially organised has been restructured, and these teachers pointed at some significant aspects in relation to their teaching satisfaction, which the original ESP did not deal with.