Validation Of The Pupil Control Ideology Scale In The Indian Context

Abstract

The present paper was an attempt to adopt and validate the Scale of Pupil Control Ideology (PCI) for Middle school teachers. The scale has created to gauge an instructor’s pupil control attitude along the continuum between humanistic and custodial practices. The scale has been regularly used to assess both teacher ideology and school atmosphere. In this study scale was modified to make it culturally suitable in the Indian context. An exploratory factor analysis with IBM SPSS 22 was employed on a random sample of 200 middle school teachers and AMOS 21 was conducted for CFA on randomly selected 175 middle school teachers of J& K (UT).The results supported the original scale that PCI is a single-factor, 11-item, unidimensional scale found to be valid and reliable with r=.829 in the Indian context.