Measurement in Anthropology Courses

Project Summary

Researchers Involved: Ian S. Ray (PI), Elizabeth Hirsh (Co-PI)

This project involves examining published measures of cultural competence, cultural intelligence, and ethnocentrism for their usability in the undergraduate anthropology classroom. Overall project outcomes include:

  1. Piloting previously published measures of cultural constructs when applied to undergraduate anthropology students

  2. Applying Multidimensional Item Response Theory to determine the factor correlation and true dimensionality of a compiled cultural competence measure

  3. Determine covariates relevant to developing cultural competency, possibly including lived experiences, previous coursework, and internationality.

  4. Utilizing Latent Growth Modeling to evaluate anthropological teaching practices and chart the growth of cultural competence through an undergraduate anthropology course sequence.

Work Accomplished To Date

  1. Pilot assessment administered to undergraduate anthropology students

  2. Project currently on hold due to COVID-19 pandemic

Publications To Date

None

Next Steps

On hold due to COVID-19 pandemic