Validations of the "Character Mosaic Report"
Abstract
The United States Air Force Academy s Center for Character and Leadership Development produced the Character Mosaic Report for freshmen cadets. The report provides individual scores on nine different virtues embodied in the AF Core Values, along with scores on each of the four elements of The ARDA Model (i.e., Awareness, Reasoning, Deciding, Acting). The virtue scores were initially created through reviewing previously validated instruments that exhibited face validity. Evidences of convergent and discriminant validity were provided through a series of exploratory factor analyses; each factor additionally demonstrated sufficient reliability (i.e., Cronbach s alpha values of at least 0.70). Two Mosaic virtues were presumed to be related to two constructs from the Moral Foundations Questionnaire , and subsequent correlations provided evidence of convergent and discriminant validity. Scale scores on each of four elements of The ARDA Model were validated through varying methods. The Awareness scale reflected scores from the Situational Judgment Test a USAFA instrument that had demonstrated content validity with subject matter experts (i.e., the Air Officer Commanding and the Academy Military Trainers).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA557599
Entities
People
- Mike Rosebush
Organizations
- United States Air Force Academy