Intercultural Competence Development through Civic Engagement.

Statistical significance was found in two of the subscales of the Intercultural Development Inventory. These results suggest that for American undergraduates, study abroad in a country where English is the predominant language may improve intercultural sensitivity.

Scholarly literature shows limited knowledge on what fosters nurses' intercultural development. Thus, this quantitative, retrospective study was the first investigation in health care in Switzerland conducted on nursing students' orientation on the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and the relationship to student demographic variables.

Constructing intercultural competence in Italian social service and healthcare organizations. Pedagogical design, effectiveness research, and alternative visions for promoting ethnorelativism. Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). The results of the mixed-method program.

This study examined the intercultural development of a cohort of first year UK and non-UK psychology students studying at one UK university. The Intercultural Development Inventory was used to assess students’ stages of development upon entry and seven months on. Questionnaires and interviews further explored students’.

Results indicated that students are impacted by internationalization in complex and contradictory ways. The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) was used as a tool to demonstrate growth in students’ intercultural sensitivity. The intercultural experiences students discussed in interviews were difficult to compare with the inventory results.

The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) Sample Report The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) is a powerful diagnostic and development instrument. It helps to build individual and team effectiveness, improving cross cultural communication and team work.

Thank you to the Intercultural Communication Institute and Dr. Mitch Hammer for assistance with the Intercultural Development Inventory. I also thank my CIDE friends for the countless potlucks, dinners, and study sessions that kept me social and balanced from our first class in fall 2004 to now. Thank you to my family and friends for your.

The results of this thesis demonstrate a need for the reformation of CCT conceptions of culture and a possible direction which this reformation could take. The improvement and augmented accuracy of CCT teachings will increase the capacity of these training programs to promote intercultural understanding and positive intercultural relations.

Abstract. The purpose of this study was to first identify the most accurate definitions of intercultural competence by the examination of other representative works on the topic, then to elaborate on the different characteristics and articulate the theoretical underpinnings of the intercultural development inventory (IDI) used to assess intercultural competence.

This dissertation expands the critical analysis of the study’s methodology, including an updated description of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), the instrument used for quantitative data collection. The results of the mixed-method program evaluation research are reported, showing through both qualitative and quantitative data.

Developed by Hammer, Bennett, and Wiseman, the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) is a self-reflection tool to measure an individual's cultural sensitivity, cultural awareness, and cultural.

The results demonstrated a statistically significant growth in intercultural maturity directly after the three-week study abroad program for the study abroad students. However, the three-month follow-up survey showed that students who studied abroad had the same mean score for intercultural maturity as the control group by the end of their second year in college.