The Human Side: Developing Technical Managers—First You Need a Competency Model

Design of a Measurement System of End-User Information Competency with a Case Study

“…Items were excluded when their correlation with the collected item-total was < 0.5 or when their correlation with the criterion scales was < 0.6. The correlations with the corrected itemtotal and the criterion item were significant at p 0.01 and similar to those used by others in previous researches (Rifkin, Fineman, and Ruhnke, 1999;McCoy, 2001;Torkzadeh and Lee, 2003;Yoon, 2008). After these analyses, the first 24 measurement items were reduced to 14 items, with 10 items were deleted.…”

A Comprehensive Instrument for Measuring Individual Competency of IT Applications in an Enterprise IT Environment

“…After that, we used item-to total correlations to delete inadequate items. Previous literature suggests that items with low correlations, i.e., < 0.5, should be eliminated [7], [19], [20]. Based on these analysis results, our research deleted two items, leaving 24 items in total.…”

“…As shown in Table 4, the lowest within-factor correlations of each factor (black and bold values) are as follows: IT attitude (V02, 04, 07) = 0.48; IT knowledge (V08, 09, 11, 12) = 0.53; IT skills (V13, 14,17,19,20) = 0.42; and IT experience (V22, 23, 25) = 0.51. These values are significantly higher than zero and thus they are large enough to carry out discriminant validity.…”

Developing the Principal Technology Leadership Competency Indicators for Technical High Schools in K-12 in Taiwan

“…Competency also refers to the ability to achieve an effective outcome in a specific situation (Chao et al 2003). Competency frameworks have been applied in various settings, for example, for assessing company managers and employees and as training and recruitment tools (Rifkin et al 1999). …”