The self-perceived skills of teachers in initial training: validation of a scale to measure methodological skills.

The aim of this study is to investigate the selfperceived methodological skills of teachers in initial training, enrolled in five-year single-cycle degree courses in Primary Education Science in two Italian university contexts. On the basis of the literature four key competences (design; assessment; communication; relation) are analyzed, considered to be the foundations of the profiles of teaching professionals. From a methodological point of view, a tool has been calibrated to explore the self-perceived competences of future teachers, which, in the next phase, will be correlated to their performance, in terms of grades obtained at exams. The contribution documents the first phase of the research focused on the construction of the main instrument (scale) and the try-out phase to verify its content validity, metrological robustness and reliability matrix, paying attention to the effects of the different factors and the sub-scales related to it.