Die vertaling, aanpassing en standaardisering van die Kodus belangstellingsvraelys vir Duitssprekende leerlinge van Namibie

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The lack of scientific psychometric aids for use during the critical stages of developmentalphases of German-speaking Namibian pupils, necessitated this investigation. When careerrelateddecisions like subject, course and career choices are made, most pupils requirescientific information about themselves. Of all these sources of information, those pertainingto the measurement of interests play the most significant role in the making of careerdecisions. By means of the present study an attempt was made to develop an interestquestionnaire for German-speaking pupils.The way in which items of Afrikaans and English interest questionnaires were formulated, aswell as the vocabulary that was used in these questionnaires, resulted in uncertainties.Insufficient face validity together with irrelevant norms resulted in distorted pictures of pupils'interests with the subsequent non-optimal decisions or doubts regarding the validity of theinstruments.Given the Southern African nature of the items of the KODUS-BelangstellingsvraelysjKODUSInterest Questionnaire as well as the more than satisfactory results that were achieved by thethorough research that went into the original standardisation, it was decided to translate andadapt these questionnaires for use with German speaking Namibian pupils. In translating andadapting the questionnaire various factors had to be taken into consideration ·in order toproduce an instrument that would measure the same fields of interest as the originalAfrikaans·· and English questionnaires.Following a pilot study, it was found that no alterations to the questionnaire would berequired. The subsequent standardisation yielded results indicating that the questionnairewas translated and adapted satisfactorily and that it measures the same interest fields as theAfrikaans and English questionnaires. Separate norms had to be compiled for the various sexand standard groups.The KODUS-Interessenfragebogen (Deutsch) in its present form is suitable for scientific usewith German-speaking pupils of Namibia.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University