I used 21st century skills scale developed by Ravitz in my study. One of the comments I received from one of the professors was that "you cannot simply use an instrument developed for another country and apply the same instrument to your country. You have to contextualize the instrument".
To contextualize an instrument for a study, a researcher should:
Your professor is referring to a problem I have named Measurement Disjuncture (Sul, 2019). This refers to the misalignment that occurs when elements of an instrument-development process from one worldview are applied to the instrument-development process of another worldview" (Sul, 2019, p. 7). My prescription for this problem is to focus on culturally specific assessments (Sul, 2019) that are designed and developed from within the cultural perspective wherein which the instrument will be applied.
Thank you very much David Sul
Could you please share your book, i will read it.
Hashmatullah Tareen, please review some of my publications posted to my ResearchGate page located here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Sul/research
There you will see some articles, a book chapter, and my dissertation. The book chapter offers a thorough summary of the theoretical concepts I have developed. Feel free to reach out if you have questions or need assistance with your project.
Oh, i understand what it means. Maybe you have to amend the items to be more related to your study? because sometimes if the instrument you adapted was from a Western country for example, you might need to amend the items to suit your study better.
Nurul Hidayu Shafie, think beyond just the items towards the construct of "21st century skills" itself. Is that relevant within the environmental space? If so, then how does it reveal itself within that environmental space? Will there be different framework dimensions? All of these are at the heart of situating an assessment within a named cultural environment.
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