Abstract
M.Ed.
In this chapter an analysis and interpretation of some of the empirical data was undertaken. The construct validity of the research instrument was investigated by means of two successive factor analysis which reduced the 108 items to just two factors namely: Educative competence consisting of 81 items with a reliability coefficient of 0,978 and Collaborative competence consisting of 27 items with a reliability of 0,918. The statistical analysis of the research was rationed to a comparison of one example of two independent groups and one example of three or more independent groups. Hypotheses were set and multivariate statistics were used to analyse and interpret the data. An instrument which has construct validity should also be able to distinguish
between groups which are known to differ from one another. It can be seen from the data in Table 4.5 that many of the groups which one expects to differ significantly from one another do indeed differ in their perceptions of educative and collaborative competence. These differences were discussed and possible reasons for the differences in factor mean scores were postulated.