Development and Validation of Scale for Assessment of Followership among School Teachers

Abstract

The teaching profession in the researcher's context is becoming a machine-like job because teachers’ followership i.e. competence, commitment, courage, and selfmanagement, is least prioritized, and more focus is given only on their regularity and punctuality. Effective followership is desired among the teachers for the achievement of educational goals but ignored and resultantly, there is no scale on teachers’ followership. Moreover, the followership measures particularly for teachers in the research literature are rare and the available measures lack recommended psychometric evidence. Therefore, the effort to develop a followership scale for teachers (FST) has been made. Through literature review, 55 items were constructed. Five items were discarded from the item pool having poor Content Validity Ratio i.e. below 0.42 that is estimated through the judgment of 14 experts. The items were administered using google form in the what's app groups of teachers and 346 school teachers working in high schools have responded. Exploratory factor analysis using varimax rotation and confirmatory factor analysis on AMOS-21 was performed for construct validation of the scale. The scale was finalized containing 16 items with no item representing less than 0.40 load. Subscales of followership indicate moderate correlation and the overall Cronbach alpha of the scale was estimated at 0.88. Finally, FST includes four subscales i.e. (a) Competence, (b) Commitment, (c) Courage, and (d) Self-management. The scale containing recommended psychometric properties is available for use.