Purdue University has invested in intercultural development for its faculty and staff through IDI Qualifying Seminars each fall and spring from Fall of 2015 until the Spring of 2019. With the Qualified Administrators' (QAs') permission, CILMAR has organized a contact list for those who are interested in finding a QA in their college or department.
The IDI is the premier, cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence that is used by thousands of individuals and organizations to build intercultural competence to achieve international and domestic diversity and inclusion goals and outcomes.
IDI research in organizations and educational institutions confirms two central findings when using the IDI:
In contrast to many “personal characteristic” instruments, the IDI is a cross-culturally valid, reliable and generalizable measure of intercultural competence along the validated intercultural development continuum (adapted, based on IDI research, from the DMIS theory developed by Milton Bennett). Further, the IDI has been demonstrated through research to have high predictive validity to both bottom-line cross-cultural outcomes in organizations and intercultural goal accomplishments in education.
Are you interested in taking the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) or the Intercultural Conflict Style (ICS) inventory for yourself or your unit?
Please e-mail cilmar@purdue.edu. Your department may be willing to pay the fee for the IDI in order to invest in your intercultural development.
Anyone can request that their group be assessed using the IDI. There is a cost associated with the IDI, which needs to be taken into consideration (Faculty/Staff: $18.00, Students: $12.00). In order to receive assessment results, participants must be debriefed by a Qualified Administrator (QA) of the IDI (approximately 1 hour). A Group Debriefing is an option; however, this is restricted to groups of 12 or more and may last between 1 to 1 ½ hours. CILMAR manages a central calendar of QA appointments which is available to all Purdue groups upon approval of the usage application (see below).
According to IDI® LLC , attendance at a QS and consent to a licensing agreement is required to use the IDI Assessment. Participants will receive IDI handouts and materials that include detailed interpretive guidelines, and written descriptions of procedures. During the seminar, participants will:
Individual debriefing appointments for IDIs are administered through a central calendar, which can be accessed by going to https://www.purdue.edu/apps/account/IPPUWCOnline.