Title

The Munroe Multicultural Attitude Scale Questionnaire: A New Instrument For Multicultural Studies

Keywords

Banks's transformative approach; Instrument validation; Multicultural attitudes; Multicultural studies; Multiculturalism

Abstract

Institutions of higher education want to diversify their learning climates, and many offer courses in multiculturalism, yet these courses still do not meet the needs of attitudinal change. A new instrument was developed, the Munroe Multicultural Attitude Scale Questionnaire (MASQUE), that was theoretically based in Banks's transformative approach, which specifically measured multicultural attitudes. Psychometric properties of the instrument's scores are discussed. Exploratory factor analysis supported the "know," "act," and "care" domains of Banks's transformative approach, and the instrument was sensitive to detecting group differences on several demographic variables. The MASQUE's potential uses for affecting multicultural research and instruction are discussed. © 2006 Sage Publications.

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Publication Title

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volume

66

Issue

5

Number of Pages

819-834

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164405285542

Socpus ID

33748043308 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33748043308

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