PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY INSTRUMENT: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A FOUR-FACTOR MODEL

Abstract

The study is to develop and validate a professional competency instrument among lecturers in Matriculation College, Malaysia. The items measuring the lecturer’s professional competencies were constructed through extensive literature discussion with the experts in the field and further discussion with the practitioners, i.e., matriculation college. The Professional Competency Instrument was then tested in the field via the survey research method. The sample of the current study consists of 132 academic lecturers in one of the matriculation colleges through a random sampling method. The exploratory factor analysis was used to test the hypothesized model with four dimensions of professional competency instruments. The study confirmed that the proposed model was fit, and data loading was significant, which leads to the construct validity of the research instrument. Finally, the study highlighted the importance of researching more on professional competency to seek its relationship with other factors, pertinent especially to address issues regarding lecturers’ competency.