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Knowledge-Practice Measure of Islamic Religiosity (KPMIR)

 


Assessment name:  Knowledge-Practice Measure of Islamic Religiosity (KPMIR)

Scale overview: The Knowledge-Practice Measure of Islamic Religiosity (KPMIR)

Author: Mohammad Adnan Alghorani

Response Type: Multiple choice

Scales and items: There are 100 items in the overall KPMIR measure, which has two scales: Islamic Knowledge and Islamic Practice. The Islamic Knowledge scale includes five subscales: Knowledge of Creed, Worship, Appearance, Jurisprudence, History. The Islamic Practice scale has four subscales: Practice of Creed, Worship, Appearance, and Jurisprudence.

Psychometric properties

The sample was 211 Muslim students in a US High School.

Content validity was based on the expert judgment of Muslim scholars. Internal consistency values were high for the full scale and the subscales.

Cronbach alpha values

  Full scale = .920

  Islamic Knowledge = .842

   Islamic Practice = .882

See Alghorani (2008) for details on the alpha values of the subscales as well as sample items, which are included in the appendix.

Availability:

The author’s email from the article may be helpful for more information. m.alghorani@uaeu.ac.ae

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Reference for the scale

Alghorani, M. A. (2008). Knowledge-Practice Measure of Islamic Religiosity (KPMIR): A case of high school Muslim students in the United States, Journal of Muslim Mental Health, 3:1, 25-36

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