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Ilona Kocvarová; Jan Kalenda; Jitka Vaculíková; Zuzana Neupauer; Ruženka Šimonji Cernak; Anna Wloch – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
The article focuses on adaptation and validation of the Academic Motivation Scale questionnaire (AMS-28) in higher education in four Eastern European countries: Czechia, Slovakia, Serbia, and Poland. The research was conducted with a total of 1711 respondents. We examined the construct validity of AMS-28 including measurement invariance and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Validity
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Valdez, Jana Patricia M.; Chu, Samuel Kai Wah – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
The present investigation explored the psychometric validity of the five-item Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-5) using a construct validation approach. Concerning within-network construct validity, results of item response theory (IRT) analysis via graded response model (GRM) showed that this scale could not discriminate individuals who score high in…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Validity, Psychological Patterns, Construct Validity
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Smith, Kenneth J.; Davy, Jeanette A.; Rosenberg, Donald L. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine an alternative configuration of the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS), a psychometric instrument used as a measure of academic motivation in various academic environments. The analyses utilised data from a convenience sample of 2354 business students, broken into two random subsamples of 1177 cases.…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Construct Validity