Nathaniel Owen|Alison Fox|Terese Bird
The development of a small-scale survey instrument of UK teachers to study professional use (and non-use) of and attitudes to social media
paper documents creation implementation analysis survey instrument designed reveal patterns use attitudes towards value social media uk teachers study motivated discover teachers use social media professionally use personally professionally attitudes social media professional tool students professional use instrument created verbal data two focus group discussions regarding use social media education attitude statements included verbatim practical instrument placed online practising teachers invited complete n 216 exploratory factor analysis hierarchical clustering identified 9 factors 54 attitude statements 5 distinct teacher groups rich data allowed group carefully defined providing potentially invaluable information school leaders developing social media projects recognize accommodate full range teacher concerns experience paper also addresses methodological concerns regarding instrument creation dealing missing data impact missing data subsequent analysis