Developed Questionnaire Instruments

German-Language Questionnaire to Measure Collective Orientation (CO)

Author

Vera Hagemann
 

Fields of Application

The instrument for measuring Collective Orientation (CO) records an individual's attitude towards working in a team. It measures the willingness to work in a team in a collective way. A team member with a high collective orientation works effectively with others on a factual and relational level. In addition, a team member with a high score in CO considers the input of other members, improves the team result and enjoys team membership. The Collective Orientation of persons/team members is positively related to the coordination performance of the respective team and the overall team performance in interdependent work. The inventory can be used for a status measurement in any team context. In addition, it can be used to measure changes in a team, e.g. to visualise changes in collective orientation due to interventions in a team.
 

Contents

In the CO-questionnaire the two dimensions Affiliation (10 Items) and Dominance (6 Items) are used to assess a person’s tendency to prefer working with others rather than working alone (high affiliation) and to value cooperation more than power and control (low dominance).
 

Processing

The instrument economically covers two relevant dimensions of collective orientation. 16 items are answered on a 5-point Likert-scale. Processing the items takes about 5 minutes.
If you are interested in the instrument, please contact Prof. Dr. Vera Hagemann.
 

Citation

Hagemann, V. (2017). Development of a German-Language Questionnaire to Measure Collective Orientation as an Individual Attitude, Swiss Journal of Psychology, 76(3), 91-105. Doi:10.1024/1421-0185/a000198.

Here you can find detailed information about the instrument and a download:

Open Test Archive - CO

Training Evaluation Inventory (TEI)

Authors

Sandrina Ritzmann, Vera Hagemann and Annette Kluge
 

Fields of Application

The Training Evaluation Inventory (TEI) is an instrument to evaluate interventions such as trainings or workshops. The questionnaire can be integrated into the formative, i.e. ongoing training evaluation process, but can also be used to evaluate a training finally and summatively. Due to its theoretical and empirical foundation and its wide acceptance among the relevant stakeholders in organisations (trainers, trainees, decision makers in training issues), the TEI is suitable for use in research projects as well as for the evaluation of training interventions in an organisational context. The TEI also enables a comparison of different training modules.
 

Contents

The ten scales of the TEI cover both training-relevant outcome dimensions and aspects of the training design.
Kirkpatrick's (1998) influential hierarchical evaluation model with the four levels "reactions", "learning", "behaviour" and "results" formed the basis for the development of the scales in the outcome dimensions. The first two levels are recorded in a differentiated manner using five scales.

The outcome dimensions include:

• Reaction: Subjective enjoyment
• Reaction: Perceived usefulness
• Reaction: Perceived difficulty
• Learning: Subjective knowledge gain
• Learning: attitude towards training

The training design focuses on the aspects of a training course that support the participants in learning and in transferring the acquired knowledge into the daily work routine. The dimensions of the training design are based on Merrill's principles of instructional learning (2002).

The five scales of the TEI cover the following areas:

• Problem-based learning
• Activation (of previous knowledge)
• Demonstration
• Application
• Integration
   

Processing

The TEI economically covers five relevant outcome variables and five aspects of training design from the participants' perspective. Using a 5-level Likert scale, the 45 items are completed by the participants of the training and can provide indications of the success of an intervention. Processing the inventory takes about 6-8 minutes.
If you are interested in the instrument, please contact Prof. Dr. Vera Hagemann.
 

Citation

Ritzmann, S., Hagemann, V. & Kluge, A. (2014). The training evaluation inventory (TEI) - Evaluation of training design and measurement of training outcomes for predicting training success, Vocations and Learning, 7(1), 41-73. Online First 2013: DOI: 10.1007/s12186-013-9106-4
 

References

Kirkpatrick, D. L. (1998). Evaluating training programs: The four levels (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Merrill, M. D. (2002). First principles of instruction. Educational Technology Research and Development, 50(3), 43-59.

Here you can find detailed information about the instrument and a download:

Open Test Archive - TEI