Abstract

• The main aim of this study is to develop cultural intelligence test for basic education teachers in Myanmar. A total number of 620 teachers (92males and 528 females) from Mandalay Region, Yangon Region and Ayeyarwaddy Region participated in this study. The participants were collected by using random sampling method. Test items were received from “Diagnosing your cultural intelligence” of Christopher Earley and Elaine Mosakowski (2004), “Cultural intelligence scale” of Ang et al. (2007) and “11-dimension Expanded CQ scale” of Van Dyane et al.(2012).Cultural Intelligence test consists of four factors; mecognitive, cognitive, motivational and behavioural. Pilot testing was done with the sample of 50 basic education teachers from Madaya Township in Mandalay Region. In this pilot testing, 67 items was contained. After that, Cronbach alpha was conducted. According to the results, Cronbach alpha value for Cultural Intelligence Test was 0.95 and cronbach alpha values for each dimension were also high. Then, field testing was conducted with 620 basic education teachers from selected Regions. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis have been used to analyze the data. After loading exploratory factor analysis, four items which are not correlated with any factors are removed. Cultural Intelligence test, a fourfactored construct consisting of 63 items explaining 43.351 % of total variance is obtained. According to the result of confirmatory factor analysis, its reliability and validity is also good enough to be used as an instrument to study cultural intelligent of basic education teachers.