Intercultural Developmental Inventory

I have the scores from my Intercultural Development Inventory Test. This test is designed to measure the stage of my Intercultural Development. This is an important topic in education today, as diversity in public schools is increasing all the time, and teacher's need to be able to teach more diverse group of students. They use a scale ranging from1 which is denial to 5 which is adaptation. According to my IDI report, my perceived orientation score indicates how I rate my own capability in understanding and appropriately adapting to cultural differences. In this category, I scored a 114.93, which is between minimization and acceptance on the scale. My Developmental Orientation score was 74.78 which falls between denial and defense/reversal. Needless to say I was a little upset by this until I saw what was on the back sheets of the packet. The packet has some questions and answers on the back that were part of the test. One of the things I noticed first was that it says is that I am a member of an ethnic minority which is not true. So I looked into it further and noticed six other questions were also answered differently than I remember. I also answered that I never took a foreign language and have never studied abroad which are true and I’m sure count against me. I actually had no choice in foreign language in high school because I had to give it up for Time Management. I also would like to study abroad if I get the chance. Because these answers are different than I remember putting it makes me feel that these scores are different than they would be if my actual answers were. If I were to use this score though I would need a lot of work in trying to learn new things about different cultures and be open to new experiences.