Índice de Inclusión. Desarrollando el Aprendizaje y la Participación en las Escuelas. Validación de constructo para México

One of the biggest commitments and challenges that all countries have and face every day is to warrantee a quality, equitable and inclusive education. The Inclusion Index is a tool that has been used as a guide to help the school centers in the process of educational inclusion. The UNESCO proposes that countries make their necessary adaptations, since the results of using it in England and other countries have been satisfactory. The goal of this research was to contribute with an adaptation as a first evidence for the later validation of the construct and content of the Inclusion Index, Developing the Learning for the Mexican population. It consists of an exploratory study based on a valuation strategy made by expert “judges” on Special Education. The instrument is composed by three dimensions, six sections, 45 indicators and 499 questions. Thirty-four judges from three educational institutions participated: 14 from a Multiple Attention Center, 10 from a Service Unit of Support to Regular Education and 10 teachers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The judgement of the experts was performed by the individual aggregated method. To analyze the agreements among the judges were utilized: the variation coefficient, the Spearman’s Rho correlation, ANOVA and Cronbach’s Alfa. Additionally, the comments made on each question were analyzed considering if they were favorable, unfavorable, an opinion or a suggestion. The results showed agreement between the judges in all three dimensions; in the sections only one showed a statistically significant difference. Respect to the indicators, only in three of them there were differences identified and in the questions 51 differences were observed. The comments put in valuable information about the possible reasons of the differences between the judges’ opinions. It is concluded that the instrument is useful to evaluate the educational inclusion in Mexico and it measures the construct it tries to measure. However, it is necessary to do the validation of those items in which there were found differences among the judges