Teachers’ conceptions of teaching and learning have impact on their teaching practice.
This construct may differ from culture to culture. This study aimed to develop an
instrument to measure secondary pre-service teachers’conceptions of teaching and learning in
South Korea. A Hong-Kong questionnaire was revised for a short version in the process of
translation/modification, item testing, scale testing, designing common variables, and item
selection. The participants were senior students enrolled in teacher preparation programs of
a private university in an urban area of South Korea. Data were collected twice, before and
after a 4-week teaching practicum. The short version questionnaire was tested by statistical
analysis methods for normality, correlation, reliability, and factor analysis on the pre-survey
data set, and then re-tested on the post-survey data set. The final model, named the
Teaching and Learning Conceptions Questionnaire Short Form, consisted of eight items from
the constructivist view and eight items from traditionalist view, with together 16 items. The
result showed that pre-service teachers tended to have strong constructivist perspectives on
the teaching and learning conceptions.