Molefhe Mogapi

Using Factor Analysis Procedures to Validate Score Reporting Practice of Large Scale Examinations: Establishing the Baseline

Molefhe Mogapi · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2019

Performance of candidates in large scale examinations is often reported using a composite score that represents an aggregation of several components of a subject. The components are meant to reflect the fact that subjects are made up of different topics or modalities and each mod...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jesbs/2019/v32i430184

Comparative Analysis of In-service and Pre-service Teachers’ Critical Thinking Skills; A Thematic Approach Based on the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory

Molefhe Mogapi & Waitshega Tefo Smitta Moalosi · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2018

Aims: This paper compares the critical thinking abilities and dispositions of pre-service and in-service teachers to delineate factors that account for their difference. The tertiary pre-service programme is a major source of teachers for the schools in Botswana and as such there...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JESBS/2017/38979

Self-efficacy Factor Invariance across Pre-service and In-service Teachers in Botswana

Molefhe Mogapi, Waitshega Tefo Smitta Moalosi & Gaelebale N. Tsheko · Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences · 2018

The challenges facing measurement experts and researchers in the social sciences field is ensuring that measurement scales operate equally across different sub-populations. Measurement invariance across gender for example means that males and females conceptualize and interpret t...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ARJASS/2017/38973