SĀKUMSKOLAS VECUMA BĒRNU GARĪGĀ INTELEKTA SKALAS IZSTRĀDE: SATURA PAMATOTĪBAS IZVĒRTĒŠANA

• Authors: Grasmane Ina , Pipere Anita

Title variants

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An elaboration of primary school children spiritual intelligence scale: evaluation of content validity

• Languages of publication: LV

Abstracts

EN

Over the last few decades, the spiritual dimension, as one of the foundational dimensions ensuring the quality of individual and societal life, has drawn the specific attention of researchers. Since the analysis of research literature shows the lack of the tools for the measurement of spiritual intelligence (SI) for primary school children, the strategic aim of the given study entails the need to elaborate such scale for the measurement of children SI, to be used, among the other things, to evaluate the effectivity of programs for the development of SI. The presented work reflects the scale’s elaboration process in the phase related to the evaluation of its content validity. The theoretical background of the scale was constructed as a model on distinctive features of children’s SI, drawing on the theories by D. King, S. Wigglesworth, J. Fisher, J. Fowler, K. Cartwright, and M. Painton on SI. Empirical research of the primary content validation for the evolving scale included the analysis of experts’ views on the consistency between the elaborated model of children SI and the theoretical underpinnings of SI, the connection of their practical experience with the components of the model, as well as the analysis of the experts’ review on the scale’s items in the context of appropriate age. Six experts, selected based on their theoretical knowledge and professional experience in the domain of interest, filled out the structured survey, providing the descriptive evaluation for the components and subcomponents of children SI model, items representing these components, and commenting on the research problem. Described steps for the elaboration of the scale’s primary content validity, obtained answers on the research questions as well as the work on the elimination of revealed inaccuracies and issues have allowed reaching the research aim ñ to determine the representativity and adequacy of phenomenon’s content measured by the primary school children SI scale and the compliance between the theory and constructed items. The results of the given theoretical and empirical study approve the content validity of developing scale and, thus, open the way for further work on the psychometric validation of the instrument.

Keywords

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spiritual intelligence; content validity; theoretical model; expert survey; Children Spiritual Intelligence Scale (CSIS)

• Publisher: Daugavpils University, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Journal: Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 156-183

Contributors

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Grasmane Ina

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Pipere Anita

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ISSN

1691-1881