The Use of Content Validity Index to Determine Content Validity of Criteria for Sustainable Framework of TVET Teacher Education Program at Master’s Level

There has been report on the shortage of teachers all over the world, including TVET teachers. As main producer of TVET teacher, TVET Teacher Education programs has to be revamp in order to ensure its sustainability and durability in facing modern TVET challenges. This study aims to measure the content validity of the criteria for sustainable TVET Teacher Education program at Master’s Level. A Content Validity Index (CVI) was used as main analysis method to measure the content validity. Eight personnel from TVET and teacher education sector in Malaysia public universities and industry were selected as experts in this study to evaluate on a 36 criteria of sustainable TVET Teacher Education program questionnaire. Based on the analysis, all criteria show an excellent I-CVI value of 1.000 indicating that all are relevant to the sustainable TVET Teacher Education program at Master’s level with S-CVI analysis of 0.896 showing strong content validity. Overall, this finding has produced a new set of criteria for sustainable TVET Teacher Education program at Master’s level. The strong content validity indicating the readiness of this set of criteria to be further validated by experts of different stakeholders so that a firm validated sustainable TVET Teacher Education program at Master’s level can be developed for future endeavors.

TVET, Teacher Education, CVI, Sustainability, Postgraduate

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