Fostering Innovation: Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of Sarsani's (1999) Teacher's Creativity Promotion Scale for University Teachers

Abstract

Sarsani in India developed the Teachers' Creativity Promotion Scale (1999), which assessed the promotion of creative thinking among teachers. Since creativity is the need of every nation, the researchers wanted to provide psychometric evidence of the scale to Pakistani indigenous researchers. Thus, we took the said scale for revalidation in the Pakistani context by administering the scale to university teachers (N=399). The sample comprised 236 male and 163 female university teachers around Pakistan with ages ranging from 20-50 years. The data collected was then analyzed for factor structure using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) by SPSS. Construct validity was also established using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) through AMOS software. The original instrument used for this research had five factors having 16 items, rated on a 5-point Likert-type scale. The factor analysis of the revalidated version demonstrates that all items form a unifactorial model for the scale which explains 32% of the variance. The scale was also found to be psychometrically valid and reliable. Thus, indigenous researchers in Pakistan could use the revalidated version of the Teachers' Creativity Promotion Scale (Sarsani, 1999) for their local indigenous research.