Refinement of an instrument measuring science teachers’ knowledge of language through mixed method

Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research

Table 1 Qualitative coding outcomes: comparing theoretical constructs with interviews

Items Based on the Essential Construct
LQ01R	MMR Constitutive Process and Product	LQ03R	MMR Constitutive Process and Product	LQ20R	Constitutive Process and Product
LQ22R	Constitutive Process and Product	LQ24R	Constitutive Process and Product	LQ26^a
Items Based on the Constitutive Construct
LQ05	MMR Constitutive Process and Product	LQ07R	MMR Constitutive Process and Product	LQ11	MMR Constitutive Process and Product
LQ12R	MMR Constitutive Process and Product	LQ16R	MMR Constitutive Process and Product
Items Based on the Product and Process Construct
LQ06	MMR Constitutive Process and Product	LQ18	MMR Constitutive Process and Product
Items Based on the Multimodal Representation Construct
LQ100	MMR Process and Product	LQ17R	MMR Process and Product

^aTeachers’ interpretations of LQ26 have no relation with aspects of language but their opinion about reading comprehension and learning science