Building future primary teachers' capacity in STEM: based on a platform of beliefs, understandings and intentions

International Journal of STEM Education

Table 7 Results summary of the SEM model

Variable	Loading	Composite Reliability (CR)	Average Variance Extracted (AVE)	R ²	t-statistics
Belief		0.862	0.558
BQ1	0.712				8.226
BQ2	0.736				9.740
BQ3	0.834				28.674
BQ4	0.777				16.154
BQ5	0.664				8.569
Intention		0.855	0.600	0.134
ITQ1	0.779				13.732
ITQ2	0.825				16.552
ITQ3	0.871				27.673
ITQ4	0.597				6.347
Now		0.871	0.694	0.437
N1	0.874				27.022
N2	0.890				34.475
N3	0.725				12.899
Future		0.800	0.578	0.267
F1	0.771				8.834
F2	0.604				4.521
F3	0.879				19.759