Designing and Validation of Self-Assessment Tool of Professional Competency and Its Psychometrics in the Administrators of Preschool Educational Centers
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Shahin Amani
,
Zahra Abbasi Dolatabadi
,
Tayebeh Ilaghinezhad Bardsiri
,
Mahdi Nouri
,
Jebraeil Nasl Saraji
,
Mohsen Poursadeqiyan
,
Behzad Khedri
,
Abdollah Mohammadzadehaghdam
,
Zahra Zamani
,
Mansoureh Karimzadeh
Abstract
Background: The role of preschool administrators in raising children is increasing day by day, so the purpose of this study was to detect the validity and reliability of the professional competency questionnaire and its psychometric assessment in preschool administrators.
Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on 380 preschool administrators with a minimum age of 25 and a maximum of 65 year participated in 2018. The sampling method was stratified from four regions of north, south, west and east of Tehran, Iran. Rosenberg self-esteem questionnaire was used for convergent validity. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to examine the internal consistency. Face validity, content validity and structural validity were also calculated. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire.
Results: The questionnaire of professional competency of preschool administrators was appropriate in terms of face validity. Indicators related to content validity were appropriate in terms of relevance, transparency and necessity in this study. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.98. The correlation between the total score of the managers' professional competency test and self-esteem was equal to 0.08 with a significance level of 0.58.
Conclusion: The professional competency questionnaire of preschool administrators had good validity and reliability to assess the level of professional competency of preschool administrators. Researchers can use this questionnaire to assess the professional competency of preschool administrators.
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2. Maleki MS, Khedri B, Roodposhti ME, et al (2022(. Epidemiology of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries in Iran; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Arch Acad Emerg Med,10(1): e80.
3. Poursadeqiyan M, Kasiri N, Khedri B, et al (2022). The fear of COVID-19 infection after one years of jobs reopening in Ira-nian society. J Health Sci Surveillance Sys, 10(3): 284-292.
4. Amani S, Tahmasbi S, Baneshi A, et al (2018). Factors Affecting Professional Competency of Iranian Preschool Ad-ministrators Based on Crisis Manage-ment Approach. Health in Emergencies and Disasters Quarterly, 3(4):185-190.
5. Khaleghi S, Sadeghimoghadam A, Moradi Y, et al (2021). Is Nurses' Job Satisfaction Related to Occupational Health and Safe-ty Management? Iran J Public Health, 50(8): 1738-1739.
6. Safi Ahmad (2017). Education and man-agement of preschool and primary schools in Iran and its developments. 2nd ed. Arasbaran Publishing. Tehran.
7. Dopolani FN, Arefi MF, Akhlaghi E, et al (2022). Investigation of occupational fa-tigue and safety climate among nurses us-ing the structural equation model. Work, 72(3): 1129-1139.
8. Ráżewski P, Małachowski B (2012). Ap-proach to competence modelling for en-terprise knowledge management. IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 45(6):1159-64.
9. Hitt DH, Woodruff D, Meyers CV, Zhu G (2018). Principal competencies that make a difference: Identifying a model for lead-ers of school turnaround. Journal of School Leadership, 28(1):56-81.
10. Heck RH, Hallinger P (2005). The study of educational leadership and management: where does the field stand today? Educa-tional Management Administration & Leader-ship, 33(2):229-44.
11. Akcamete AG, Kayhan N, Sen M (2012). Pre-school special education practices in European Union Countries and Turkey. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 46:1510-1516.
12. Altinkaynak SO, Aydos EH, Akman B (2012). The Views of Teachers and Man-agers about Art, Music and Drama Ac-tivities Carried Out by In-field-teachers in Early Childhood Education Institutions. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 46:2040-2045.
13. Amiri M, Zandieh M, Soltani R, Vahdani B (2009). A hybrid multi-criteria decision-making model for firm’s competence evaluation. Expert Systems with Applications, 36(10):12314-12322.
14. Bohlouli M, Ansari F, Fathi M (2012). De-sign and realization of competence profil-ing tool for effective selection of profes-sionals in maintenance management. In Conference proceedings - IEEE international con-ference on systems, man and cybernetics, 15(3):2195-2200.
15. Bohlouli M, Ansari F, Patel Y, et al (2013). Towards analytical evaluation of profes-sional competences in human resource management. In IECON proceedings (indus-trial electronics conference), 8335-8340.
16. Camilli G, Vargas S, Ranks, Barnett WS (2020). Meta-analysis of the effects of early education interventions on cognitive and social development. Teach Coll Rec, 112(3):579-620.
17. Chong E (2013). Managerial competencies and career advancement: A comparative study of managers in two countries. Jour-nal of Business Research, 66(3):345-353.
18. Eichinger RW, Lombardo M (2001). The leadership machine: architecture to devel-op leaders for any future. 3rd ed. Lominger. USA, Minneapolis, Minn. pp.:1-436.
19. Roberts G, Bryant D (2011). Early Mathe-matics Achievement Trajectories: Eng-lish-Language Learner and Native Eng-lish-Speaker Estimates, Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey. Dev Psy-chol, 47:916-30.
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21. Goleman D, Boyatzis R (2008). Social intelli-gence and the biology of leadership. Har-vard Business Review, 86(9):74-81.
22. Temple JA, Reynolds AJ (2007). Benefits and costs of investments in preschool education: Evidence from the Child–Parent Centers and related programs. Economics of Education Review, 26(1):126-44.
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24. khandwalla PN (2004). Competencies for senior manager roles. Vikalpa, 29(4):11-24.
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27. Khajei S (2002). Assessing the professional competencies and skills of primary school principals to design an appropri-ate management model. Journal of the Re-search Institute of Education, 18 (2-1) 140-133.
28. Alizadeh Tabrizi, Anna. Assessing the pro-fessional competence of preschool center managers [M.Sc. thesis]. Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Iran; 2009.
29. LaFerney PS. Early childhood professional development and classroom quality in preschool classrooms [PhD thesis]. Ok-lahoma State University, USA; 2006.
30. Labadi Z. Assessing the qualifications of higher education managers with regard to international indicators and providing an appropriate perceptual framework [PhD thesis]. Azad University, Science and Re-search Branch, Tehran; 2007.
31. Javanmard M. A Survey of Managers' and Teachers' Perceptions of Managers' Hu-man Relations Skills in High Schools in Isfahan [M.Sc. Thesis]. Faculty of Educa-tional Sciences and Psychology, Educa-tional Management, University of Isfa-han, Iran; 2002.
32. Levenson A R, Van der Stede, W A, Cohen SG (2006). Measuring the relationship be-tween managerial competencies and per-formance. Journal of Management, 32(3):360-380.
33. Hosseinzadeh Takht Keshha A, Maleki H, Zohreh I. Evaluating the performance of principals with academic education of ed-ucational management and principals with non-academic education of educa-tional management in boys' high schools in Tehran in the field of students' aca-demic achievement [PhD Thesis]. Payame Noor University of Tehran, Faculty of Humanities, Iran; 2011.
34. Liikamaa K (2015). Developing a Project Manager's Competencies: A Collective View of the Most Important Competen-cies. Procedia Manufacturing, 3:681-687.
35. Islamieh F, Mohammad Davoodi A (2014). Assessing the level of professional com-petencies and skills of primary school principals and its relationship with teach-ers' job commitment and attachment. Education and Evaluation (Educational Scienc-es), 7(27):103-116.
36. Shnejder L, Khmelkova M, Golovyatenko T, et al (2020). Development of Profes-sional Competence of Teachers as A Fac-tor of the Education Quality Manage-ment in Preschool Institutions. In SHS Web of Conferences, (79):04001.
37. Rajabi Gh , Karjo Ksmai S (2012). A study of Confirmatory Structure two-factor Model of the Persian Version Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale. Journal of Psychological methods and models (JPMM), 2(6): 33-43.
38. Shavelson R.J (2013). On an approach to testing and modeling competence. Ed-ucational Psychologist, 48(2):73–86.
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Amani S, Abbasi Dolatabadi Z, Ilaghinezhad Bardsiri T, Nouri M, Nasl Saraji J, Poursadeqiyan M, Khedri B, Mohammadzadehaghdam A, Zamani Z, Karimzadeh M. Designing and Validation of Self-Assessment Tool of Professional Competency and Its Psychometrics in the Administrators of Preschool Educational Centers. Iran J Public Health. 2022;51(11):2582-2591.
