An Evaluation of the Convergent Validity of Situational Assessment of Leadership-Student Assessment (SALSA© ) with Multi-Source Feedback in MBA and Ed.D. in Educational Leadership Students

• Main Author: Tucker, Justin
• Format: Others
• Published: TopSCHOLAR® 2011
• Subjects: situational awareness; educational tests and measurements; student leadership assessment; Personality and Social Contexts; Psychology
• Online Access: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1058; http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2062&context=theses

The current study assessed the convergent validity of the Situational Assessment of Leadership – Student Assessment (SALSA©), a situational judgment test (SJT), with multi-source ratings. The SALSA© was administered to MBA and Ed.D. in Educational Leadership students via Blackboard; multi-source ratings, which paralleled the leadership dimensions of the SALSA©, were administered online. Each student completed the SALSA© and was rated by his or her supervisor, 3-5 peers, 1-5 subordinates, and him/herself. SALSA© scores were not correlated with any of the corresponding dimensions on multi-source ratings. This finding may suggest that the multi-source ratings and SALSA© are not measuring the same leadership construct; or these results may be due to low variance in SALSA scores and low variance in the ratings. Self ratings were not significantly higher than other ratings, with three exceptions. Also, no difference was found between SALSA scores for MBA and Ed.D. students. This study was limited by the small sample size.