ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Assessment, Testing and Applied Measurement
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1525702
Running head: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE PERSIAN
Provisionally accepted
- 1Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
- 2Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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Purpose: Learners with a design thinking mindset can improve several levels of cognitive processes, such as thinking skills, research skills, learning skills, self-exploration, creativity, and innovation. The present study was carried out with the aim of translation, cultural adaptation, and evaluation of the psychometric characteristics of the design thinking mentality questionnaire for Iranian students.Methods: A four-step study was performed in the current work. After translating the questionnaire using the translation-re-translation method, content validity was examined.The content validity ratio (CVR) and content validity index (CVI) were assessed using constructing construct validity factor analysis. Then, the translated questionnaire was presented to 300 students. Reproducibility (stability) was evaluated using the intracluster correlation coefficient. The internal consistency was evaluated using Cronbach's alpha.The results of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirmed the structure of eight factors (risk tolerance, human-centeredness, holistic view, problem reframing, teamwork, experiment, abductive thinking, and creative self-confidence) with 37 questions. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the whole instrument was 0.925, and the intracluster correlation coefficient (ICC) was 0.842 at a significance level of p 0.001, which indicates the stability and good reproducibility of the tool.The findings generally, the findings support the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the design thinking mentality questionnaire. This means that the instrument can be used to measure the design-thinking mentality
Keywords: Design Thinking Mindset, questionnaire, Reliability, translation, validity
Received: 10 Nov 2024; Accepted: 02 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Vaqari Zamharir, Karami, Jamali and Saeidi Rezvani. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Zahra Vaqari Zamharir, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
Morteza Karami, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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