Development of Indicators and Content Validity for School Administrators’ Cultural Competency

Abstract

Cultural competency of school administrators is a success factor for school administration in cultural diversity context. Even during the COVID 19 crisis, this competency is highly valued. The research objectives are developing cultural competency indicators for school administrators and verifying content validity of these indicators. This research process divided into two main steps. First was tool development by literature review and the second was tool testing by content validity verifying. The cultural competency indicators were cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skill, and cultural sensitivity. There were 56 items having item content validity index at 1 and two items at .8. The content validity for scale index were tested by S-CVI/UA and S-CVI/Ave and the scores were .97 and .99 respectively. These developed indicators have validity and can be used to measure school administrators’ cultural competency. In addition, these indicators should be tested to find the reliability and should be used to conduct an empirical research with sample groups. Keywords: Indicator, Content Validity, School Administrator, Cultural Competency