The Turkish Adaptation Study of Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) for 12-18 Year Old Children: Results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis

This study gives results of the first phase of the 12-18 year old Turkish students' norm study of The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), which deveoped by Pintrich, Smith, Garcia & McKeachie (1993). The scale was administrated to 1114 students from 3 primary schools and...

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Published in:TOJET the Turkish online journal of educational technology 2008-10, Vol.7 (4), p.1-10
Main Authors: KARADENIZ, Sirin, Sener BÜYÜKÖZTÜRK, Özcan Erkan AKGÜN, Ebru Kiliç ÇAKMAK, DEMIREL, Funda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
College Students
Correlation
Cultural Relevance
Educational Research
Educational technology
Elementary School Students
Evaluation Research
Extreme values
Factor Analysis
Factor Structure
Foreign Countries
High School Students
Learning
Learning Processes
Learning Strategies
Lifelong Learning
Mathematics
Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire
Motivation
Norms
Primary Education
Questionnaires
Rating Scales
Science Curriculum
Secondary Education
Secondary school students
Statistical analysis
Student attitudes
Student Motivation
Students
Test Construction
Turkey (Ankara)
Turkish
Turkish language
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Summary:This study gives results of the first phase of the 12-18 year old Turkish students' norm study of The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), which deveoped by Pintrich, Smith, Garcia & McKeachie (1993). The scale was administrated to 1114 students from 3 primary schools and 3 high schools in Ankara in Turkish language, science, mathematics and social science courses. After eliminating the questionnaires which have missing and extreme values, the analyses were done on 762 valid questionnaires for motivation subscale and 1100 valid questionnaires for learning strategies subscale. Results of the confirmatory factor analyses show that the first subscale, Motivation, has six factors, and the second subscale, Learning Strategies, has nine factors according to original scale's factor structures. Depending on the results of the confirmatory factor analysis; 6 items from motivation subscale and 5 items from learning strategies subscale were removed due to their low factor loadings. The corrected item total correlations ranged 0.58 to 0.15 for motivation subscale, and 0.68 to 0.19 for learning strategies subscale. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1303-6521
1303-6521