Inclusion at universities: Psychometric properties of an inclusive management scale as perceived by students.

Autor: Solis-Grant MJ; Kinesiology Department, School of Medicine, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile., Espinoza-Parçet C; Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile., Sepúlveda-Carrasco C; Universidad de las Américas, Santiago, Chile., Pérez-Villalobos C; Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile., Rodríguez-Núñez I; Kinesiology Department, School of Medicine, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile., Pincheira-Martínez C; Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile., Gómez-Varela JP; Universidad Santo Tomás, Santiago, Chile., Aránguiz-Ibarra D; Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2022 Jan 07; Vol. 17 (1), pp. e0262011. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 07 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262011
Abstrakt: Introduction: During the last century, the inclusion of all kinds of diversity became a social imperative in all social spaces but above all in some institutions such as the educational ones. Among these, inclusion has been least studied in the tertiary education organizations. This communication proposes and evaluates the psychometric properties of a new instrument, named Inclusive Management in Tertiary Institutions Scale (IMTIS), to assess inclusive management in universities.
Method: The researchers used a quantitative research model through survey. We based on the Index for Inclusion to design the IMTIS. We first submitted it to the assessment of experts. Then we applied the resulting version in an online survey including a sample of 1557 students from two universities and 121 different undergraduate careers. A panel of experts judged the content validity of the instrument. Participants answered the IMTIS after informed consent. We used confirmatory factor analysis to assess the construct validity of the instrument. We also evaluated the reliability of the measurements.
Results: From a kit of 33 originally proposed items, we obtained a version of 22 items with CVR between 0.60 and 1.00, and a IVC = 0.78. The confirmatory factor analysis showed that the six-factor solution had a better adjustment than the one and three factors solutions (RMSEA = 0.059; CFI = 0.947; TLI = 0.937). The McDonald ω coefficients were between 0.864 and 0.922.
Conclusion: The results deliver evidence that supports the validity and reliability of the IMTIS measurements to carry out research and diagnosis of inclusive management in higher education institutions.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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