Initial assessment and validation of an instrument to measure student perceptions of leadership skills

Abstract

This article reports on development and validation of an instrument for use in measuring student perceptions of leadership skills. The article describes the development process of an instrument through use of subject matter experts for measuring leadership skill perception among students and use of an exploratory factor analysis technique to validate the resulting instrument. These data were obtained from a survey of 214 students in a small liberal arts college of business. The article presents an instrument for assistance with measuring leadership skill perception, development, and importance as well as further reports on the initial validity and reliability measures resulting from the analysis. In addition, the usefulness of the instrument for educators and workplace trainers is explored.

Entrepreneurial intentions of Colombian business students

“…This conclusion supports the suggestion that leadership and entrepreneurship may share common features (Brandstätter, 2011;Vecchio, 2003), and therefore that subjects displaying high levels of self-assessed leadership skill may also score highly on antecedent drivers of entrepreneurial intention, as described in the TPB model. Leadership skills, as captured in the scale such as that used in this study (Zula et al, 2010), appear to reinforce key underlying constructs of the TPB model. Students with strong selfassessed leadership skill are able to accumulated more readily bonding cognitive social capital, which in turn reinforces their perceptions of the desirability and feasibility of entrepreneurship.…”

Intención de emprendimiento en estudiantes de cinco países latinoamericanos y su relación con liderazgo, propensión al riesgo y locus de control,

“…Additionally, since though it is not a goal of this study, there is evidence in favor of the leadership model proposed by Zula et al (2010) and of the model of entrepreneurial intention on the basis of Ajzen (1991) Theory of Reasoned Action. In both cases there are significant regression weights, as shown in Figure 4.…”

“…Designed by Zula et al (2010). The scale measures the perception that students have of their own leadership abilities.…”

“…In order to propose a conceptual model and submit it for validation, the variables included in this study are those related to entrepreneurial intention, in accordance with Ajzen's model (1991), and the skills supporting the leadership model put forth by Zula, Yarrish, and Christensen (2010). The study also includes the internal locus of control and risk propensity, as they have been shown to have a degree of correlation with entrepreneurial intention and leadership.…”

Evaluating the dimensionality of an instrument for measuring the factors affecting academic performance of international business students in project management modules

“…A considerable number of studies investigating measurement dimensionality have been published over the past couple of decades in a number of disciplines (Brooke et al, 1988;McKnight et al, 2002;Yousef, 2003;Ong and Lai, 2007;Buitendach and Rothmann, 2009;Teo, 2010;Zula et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2011;Dodeen, 2013). Additionally, there are many studies which investigated the validity and the reliability of instruments designed to assess the learning styles of higher education students (Van Zwanenberg et al, 2000;Sadler-Smith, 2001;Duff and Duffy, 2002;Zywno, 2003;Felder and Spurlin, 2005;Klein et al, 2007;Litzinger et al, 2007;Al-Azawei et al, 2015;Simelane-Mnisi and Mji, 2015).…”