Confidence to Perform in the Global Marketplace: Constructing and Validating a Survey Instrument for Community College Students

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Abstract

This article discusses the development and validation of an instrument to gauge community college students’ Confidence to Perform in the Global Marketplace. The instrument was designed to capture students’ beliefs in their own abilities to successfully carry out job-related tasks in cross-cultural work environments that are globally-interconnected and constantly at flux. Items were formulated within Bandura’s framework of self-efficacy, and the instrument was analyzed with Rasch measurement. The Rasch analysis, conducted on a sample of 1,167 students, provided evidence of the content validity of the items, the generalizability of the measure, and its external validity. The instrument can offer useful feedback to community college internationalization-focused staff in their efforts to assess outcomes of international initiatives for community college students.

Authors

• Snejana Slantcheva-Durst, University of Toledo

• Mingyang Liu, University of Toledo