DOMAIN SPECIFICATIONS AND CONTENT REPRESENTATIVENESS OF THE REVISED VALUE ORIENTATION-INVENTORY

Value orientations represent theoretical belief systems that guide tea chers' curricular decision making. Research using the Value Orientatio n Inventory (VOI) to examine physical educators' value orientations in school settings found inconsistencies between the inventory findings, descriptions of class environments, and teacher' self-reports of thei r curricular goals. This article reports the VOI revision process that included (a) literature and research reviews resulting in domain spec ifications and new VOI item development and (b) item ratings that prov ide evidence of content representativeness for the revised items. The reviews supported four of five orientations that formed the original t heoretical framework for the VOI: disciplinary mastery, learning proce ss, self-actualization, and ecological integration. The fifth orientat ion, social reconstruction, was not supported by school-based research . Findings were more consistent with a social reponsibility orientatio n. New items (K = 150) were based on the literature reviews. The new i tems were sent to university and public school teachers (N = 298) to a ssess content representativeness. Eighty-one percent of the item means were >4.0 on a 5-point scale. The social responsibility items were fo und to be domain representative and were included in the revised inven tory.