Table 3 Items of the two factors (ranked by height of the factor loading).

From: Evaluating transdisciplinary methods: a new scale for measuring knowledge integration

 

Item

Shortcut

Factor loading

Factor 1

Today’s workshop helped to strengthen our social relationships and to get to know each other.

socorg5

0.9

Today’s workshop helped me to feel that I and my knowledge are valued.

emot2

0.8

Today’s workshop helped strengthen my willingness to engage in a joint learning process.

cogep4

0.8

Today’s workshop helped to strengthen the willingness to work together.

socorg6

0.8

Today’s workshop helped me feel part of the group.

emot8

0.7

Today’s workshop helped identify roles, tasks, and responsibilities in the group.

socorg4

0.6

Today’s workshop helped to support the group in the exchange of ideas and in working together on an equal footing.

socorg8

0.6

Today’s workshop helped to make the group’s expectations and ideas transparent.

socorg2

0.6

Today’s workshop helped to combine knowledge from science and practice with the help of the games/scenario development method.

cogep3

0.5

Today’s workshop provided insights into how regular meetings promote mutual understanding.

emot4

0.5

Today’s workshop helped to increase my enjoyment of looking at issues from a new perspective.

emot7

0.5

Today’s workshop helped me to feel safer in the group. It is now easier for me to express doubts or (unusual) ideas.

emot3

0.5

Today’s workshop helped me to learn more about the milk and beef supply in Austria.

emot6

0.4

Factor 2

Today’s workshop provided insight into what knowledge exists in the group, where knowledge overlaps, and what is missing.

cogep5

0.9

Today’s workshop helped to translate a general question into the specific languages of the participants from science and practice.

comm5

0.8

Today’s workshop helped to highlight the different activities and interests of the participants.

socorg1

0.7

Today’s workshop helped clarify terms and their meanings.

comm6

0.7

Today’s workshop helped to clarify common issues, definitions, and criteria in sustainable dairy and beef supply.

cogep2

0.7

Today’s workshop provided insight that more coordination is needed when the group composition changes.

socorg9

0.7

Today’s workshop provided insights into how theoretical models describing complex phenomena or contexts (such as One Welfare, …) are an important means of communication.

comm3

0.6

Today’s workshop helped to create new knowledge in our group by sharing and linking individual knowledge.

cogep1

0.6

Today’s workshop helped to achieve a better understanding of the sub-sectors and interfaces of the Austrian dairy and beef supply.

cogep6

0.5

Today’s workshop helped to bring together the knowledge of those involved through understandable language and terms.

comm1

0.5

Today’s workshop helped me to better understand how the dairy and beef supply in Austria can be changed and how it can be shaped.

cogep7

0.5

Today’s workshop helped to reconcile the different activities and interests of the participants.

socorg3

0.5