Evidence of Reliability and Validity of a Questionnaire to Assess Intercultural Citizenship

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of a questionnaire to investigate the perception of intercultural citizenship. The design was instrumental in the quantitative approach. The sample consisted of 1,200 high school students between 11 and 17 years of age from public schools of UGEL 06 in Lima. The basis of the intercultural citizenship questionnaire conforms the dimensions of participation and coexistence assumed from the work of Palou, Rodríguez and Vila (2014).  As results we found, an Aiken validity index of 1.00, which indicates a high concordance and high internal consistency of the questionnaire through the Cronbach's alpha coefficient, yielding a value of 0.920, which suggests a high reliability in the results obtained.