Validation of the inventory of self-efficacy for multiple intelligences (IAMI) in third and fourth year high school students in the city of sucre, for vocational orientation purposes

Abstract

In any educative system, orientation is considered as an indicator of quality. In High School the orientation is essential because of the possibility of choosing an occupation together with the difficulties of the attributive insertion. According to this situation, this investigation‘s objective is to validate the Multiple Learning Abilities Auto –efficiency Inventory that has been unfold specialists from The National University of Cordoba - Argentina who wanted to evaluate the auto conviction that individual possess in order to achieve different activities related to the different learning abilities put forward by Gardner in a context of professional development. The inventory was applied to 1285 student in 13 different schools from fourth and third secondary level in Sucre city. Psycho metric studies were made to determine this tool´s veracity and validity. The results show that the Different Learning Abilities Auto efficiency Inventory has acceptable psycho metric properties of veracity and validity.