A Psychometric Analysis of the Ross Educational Philosophical Inventory (REPI

Abstract

This research was directed at an examination of the pyschometric properties of the Ross Educational Philosophical Inventory (REPI), an instrument designed to investigate underlying philosophical beliefs influencing teaching behaviors and policy decisions of educational administrators. The REPI claims to measure individual attitudes with respect to four philosophical systems—Idealism; Realism; Existentialism; Pragmatism. Content evaluation and second-order factor analyses resulted in the dimensionalizing of two higher-order factors empirically fitting the REPI categories of Idealism and Existentialism. Reliability estimates for these two dimensions suggest further research directed at improving these two scales.

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