Content validity index: competencies of quantity surveyors and enabling technologies in Industry 4.0

Abstract

Competency is important for every profession where it is needed to ensure the efficiency of a person while carrying out their task. Furthermore, with the emergence of Industry 4.0 recently, there is a need for an improved competencies model for Quantity Surveyor. The objective of this study is to develop an improved competency model for Quantity Surveyor complete with Industry 4.0 enabling technologies that currently emerge nowadays. To achieve the above objective, a pilot study should be conducted on the target respondents, namely Quantity Surveyor. However, before the pilot study can be conducted, pre-testing on the research questions is done through the Content Validity Index (CVI) that involves the expert validators consist of academicians and industry experts. This paper intended to describe a systematic approach to quantify content validity in the form of content validity index best practice. The output of the CVI identified seven (7) parameters for non-technical competencies, ten (10) parameters for technical competencies, and twelve (12) parameters for enabling technological that are appropriate to be used in the questionnaire questions. Eventually, the output for this research will develop a comprehensive competency model for Quantity Surveyors where it is embedded with Industry 4.0 technology enablers.