Assessing students’ intercultural competence: Construction and psychometric evaluation of a brief measure

IF 2.6 2区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Yue Zhao , Jenny M.Y. Huen , Hiu Tin Leung , Cecilia K.Y. Chan
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Abstract

Intercultural competence has been placed increasing attention in globalized educational systems. The study presents a series of qualitative and quantitative investigations to construct and validate scores on a brief self-report measure assessing intercultural competence of university students. Following a comprehensive literature search and qualitative expert reviews in the scale construction process, 50 potential items were classified based on the attitudinal, cognitive, and behavioral intercultural competence framework. In the psychometric evaluation process, a unidimensional structure was obtained to represent the 50 items. Item response theory analysis was performed to yield a brief measure of five content-specific items measuring intercultural competence, capturing cross-cultural self-efficacy, cultural knowledge application, perspective taking/suspending judgment, and behavioral regulation in intercultural situations. Not just contributing to measurement advancement, but the newly developed and validated instrument holds promise for guiding the design of intercultural competence educational programs and assessing students’ intercultural competence performances/gains.

评估学生的跨文化能力:一个简短测量的构建和心理测量评估
在全球化的教育体系中,跨文化能力越来越受到重视。本研究提出了一系列定性和定量调查,以构建和验证评估大学生跨文化能力的简短自我报告测量的分数。在量表构建过程中,经过全面的文献检索和定性专家评审,根据态度、认知和行为跨文化能力框架对50个潜在项目进行了分类。在心理测量评估过程中,获得了表示50个项目的一维结构。进行项目反应理论分析,得出五个具体内容的项目的简要衡量标准,衡量跨文化能力、捕捉跨文化自我效能感、文化知识应用、视角转换/暂停判断和跨文化情境中的行为调节。这一新开发和验证的工具不仅有助于测量的进步,而且有望指导跨文化能力教育计划的设计,评估学生的跨文化能力表现/收获。
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CiteScore
6.90
自引率
6.50%
发文量
90
审稿时长
62 days
期刊介绍: Studies in Educational Evaluation publishes original reports of evaluation studies. Four types of articles are published by the journal: (a) Empirical evaluation studies representing evaluation practice in educational systems around the world; (b) Theoretical reflections and empirical studies related to issues involved in the evaluation of educational programs, educational institutions, educational personnel and student assessment; (c) Articles summarizing the state-of-the-art concerning specific topics in evaluation in general or in a particular country or group of countries; (d) Book reviews and brief abstracts of evaluation studies.
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