Development and Validation of Perception of Wisdom Exploratory Rating Scale: An Instrument to Examine Teachers’ Perceptions of Wisdom

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors The Review Report is added in an attached file

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Thank you so much for the comments.

1. We fixed the numbering for Sections 2, 3, and 4. It should be fine.
2. We agree that asking about the teachers' behaviors regarding this construct (Wisdom) would be equally useful and relevant. This could be investigated in mixed-method research, incorporating semi-structured interviews. 
3. We have discussed why we did not include dynamic balance and synthesis translated into action in the manuscript. This cannot be evaluated with some questions as it is very situational. However, we could ask about it in a mixed-method study, incorporating interviews.
4. We did fix Table 2.
5. Thanks for realizing gender tendency in our sample. This tendency reflects the United States teachers' demographics 74.3% of all teachers are women, while 25.7% are men.
6. We will add your suggestion to the limitation section.

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

In my opinion, the submitted article is not in the submission version

There are still editing corrections

The article should be edited in the format of a final submission and not as a draft  and must be resubmitted for evaluation

Comments on the Quality of English Language

The article should be edited in the format of a final submission and not as a draft  and must be resubmitted for evaluation

Author Response

We made sure that the manuscript we submitted was the final version and followed the Education Sciences guidelines. 

Reviewer 3 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Thank you for pointing out these important questions about the homogeneity of the sample and the inclusion of preservice teachers. Your comments have given us directions to strenghen our instrument in future iterations. We have added these major limitations in page 15 lines 422-434. We acknowledge the limitation of a primarily female and white sample and recommend conducting future studies with intentionally diverse populations of teachers. Regarding preservice teachers and their age, we rely on prior researchers and theorists (e.g., Sternberg 2005, Jeste and colleagues, Staudinger 2005, 2010) who have made an argument about wisdom being independent of age and rather be associated with cognitive and socio-emotional skills used to navigate life and to acquire experience. We pose a limitation on the possibility of distinct results for teachers and preservice teachers due to training or years of experience. Therefore, we propose future research to test the invariance of the instrument across demographics, and preservice vs in-service teachers.  

Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

After making corrections and improving the article it is now ready for publication.