Evaluating appreciation of measures attending to pupil diversity (EMAD).
Evaluating appreciation of measures attending to pupil diversity (EMAD) is a scale for evaluating the understanding of measures describing pupils' cultural and diversity needs among the staff responsible for such measures in Spanish primary schools. Its 9 Likert-scale items correspond to the various types of action in this area that are currently being promoted in Spain. The principal objective of this study was to assess the scale's factor structure and internal consistency, to which end the scale was completed by the heads of the Departments of Orientation of 140 Spanish primary schools. Corrected item-total correlations and Cronbach alpha (.91) indicated adequate scale homogeneity. Principal components analysis followed by varimax rotation indicated two factors jointly accounting for 71.4% of total variance, one associated with actions involving modification of syllabuses, and the other with actions not requiring such changes. Cronbach alphas were .89 and .79 for the two factors.
Faculty of Sciences of the Education, University of Vigo, University Campus of Ourense, Avda. of Castelao s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain. mpino@uvigo.es
Margarita
M
Pino
José
J
Dominguez
Antonio
A
Lopez-Castedo
D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology*; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013030:Spain; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires