CONSTRUCTION AND STANDARDIZATION OF LIFE SATISFACTION SCALE FOR COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATORS

Abstract

Conceptual and research based literature related to life satisfaction scale construction and educational psychology topics were studied thoroughly for developing life satisfaction scale n Educational Psychology. The preparation and standardization of the scale consisted of four major phases such as planning, construction, evaluation and validation. In present investigation fifty items/statements were prepared by the researcher which was reviewed by experts in the field and then first draft of the life satisfaction scale was ready for tryout. For pilot testing, the test was administered on representative sample of 50 college of teacher educators of different institutions keeping in mind that they should have knowledge of life satisfaction content and they must have gone through the content earlier. Achievement test having 50 items with three alternative choices each was given to participants and scoring was done with the help of scoring key. Difficulty Value and Discrimination Power of the test calculated. This test has a value 0.936 (Cronbach Alpha) for test consistency. Researcher also used different method to establish the reliability of the test.