Development and standardization of moral intelligence scale

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to construct, develop and standardization to measure moral intelligence scale (MIS) of pupil-teachers. Investigator outlined the dimensions of moral intelligence with a thorough reading of the literature and after analyzing the content framed 100 items related to the determined dimensions. The prepared 100 items were revised and edited carefully and then given to the experts for their valuable suggestions and corrections to ensure its quality. Thus the content validity of the tool was established. After first try out and seeking the opinion of the experts some of the items were reframed and 11 items were deleted. Item analysis was done by calculating the Difficulty index level and Discrimination power for each of the 89 items of the pilot study. Based on the results of statistical analysis 27 items were deleted and 62 items were retained and those items were selected for the final study. Reliability of the questionnaire was determined by Split half method and that came out to be 0.74 that determines MIS is a highly reliable tool. The predictive and concurrent validity were 0.70 and 0.77.