TY - JFULL AU - Glenn M. Calaguas and Carmela S. Dizon PY - 2011/9/ TI - Development and Initial Validation of the Social Competency Inventory for Tertiary Level Faculty Members T2 - International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences SP - 1042 EP - 1048 VL - 5 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1246 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 56, 2011 N2 - This study aimed to develop and initially validate an instrument that measures social competency among tertiary level faculty members. A review of extant literature on social competence was done. The review of extant literature led to the writing of the items in the initial instrument which was evaluated by 11 Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). The SMEs were either educators or psychologists. The results of the evaluations done by the SMEs served as bases for the creation of the pre-try-out instrument used in the first trial-run. Insights from the first trial-run participants led to the development of the main try-out instrument used in the final test administration. One Hundred Forty-one participants from five private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the National Capital Region (NCR) and five private HEIs in Central Luzon in the Philippines participated in the final test administration. The reliability of the instrument was evaluated using Cronbach-s Coefficient Alpha formula and had a Cronbach-s Alpha of 0.92. On the other hand, Factor Analysis was used to evaluate the validity of the instrument and six factors were identified. The development of the final instrument was based on the results of the evaluation of the instrument-s reliability and validity. For purposes of recognition, the instrument was named “Social Competency Inventory for Tertiary Level Faculty Members (SCI-TLFM)." ER -