A Global Set of Dispositions? Applying Discrete-Choice Method to Measure Global Citizenship Dispositions of Secondary-School Students in Two Nations

• In Event: Outstanding Mixed Methods Dissertation Award

Abstract

Global citizenship education (GCE) is a fast-growing reform of crucial domestic and international importance. Unfortunately, secondary schools aiming to offer GCE lack reliable assessments of whether they provide anything besides a traditional approach. Prior GCE measures were designed for universities or multinational corporations; absent rigorous psychometric testing; without accounting for multidimensionality; and as self-reports, which can invite social desirability bias. To counteract these issues, this three-phase dissertation followed an exploratory sequential design to develop a discrete-choice measure that could identify and scale up promising practices for GCE in secondary schools. This dissertation benefited from several prior applications of mixed methods designs and yielded a novel application of the nominal technique, revealing that focus-group tactic as a mixed method within itself.

Author

• Michael Thier, International Baccalaureate