Volume : VI, Issue : II, February - 2016

Teacher’s Locus of Control Scale: Development & Validation (TLOCS)

Madhu Gupta, Indu Nain

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<p><p> The aim of this paper was to develop and validate Teacher’s Locus of control scale by following Likert technique. The steps followed for the development and validation this scale were planning, try–out, scoring, item analysis and interpretation of raw scores. Initially, 75 likert–type items were written in both the languages i.e. Hindi and English for the first draft covering two areas i.e. Teacher’s Internal Locus of Control and teacher’s external locus of control. These items were presented to 20 experts of Psychology, Education, Sociology and Language and on the basis of their unanimity, 44 items were retained in the second draft. The retained items were administered to 400 teachers from schools and colleges of Haryana selected by using simple random method. Finally, ‘t’ test was applied to find out the item discriminating value between 27% lower and 27% upper group and also inter–correlations were calculated among them. The items having significant ‘t’ values were selected whereas others were rejected. Only 25 items in both the languages i.e. Hindi and English were retained in the final draft. Split–half method and test–retest method were used to calculate its reliability and found .834 and .742 respectively that indicated the scale highly reliable. The scale was validated against the face, content and construct validity. Percentile norms were prepared for classifying the teachers as internally, externally and moderately controlled.</p></p>

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Madhu Gupta, Indu Nain Teacher¥s Locus of Control Scale: Development & Validation (Tlocs) Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.6, Issue : 2 February 2016

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