Psychometric Properties of the Academic Advancement Scale for a Sample of Student Teachers at the Faculty of Education in Cairo Azhar University

Mohamed, Sameh Marai Abdel Mawgoud; Shahin, Ghoda El-Sayed Ghoda Ibrahim; El-Khoussousi, Ayman Mounir Hassan Ali

doi:10.21608/jsrep.2024.349350

Psychometric Properties of the Academic Advancement Scale for a Sample of Student Teachers at the Faculty of Education in Cairo Azhar University

Document Type : Original Article

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قسم علم النفس التعليمي والإحصاء التربوي بكلية التربية بنين بالقاهرة جامعة الأزهر.

10.21608/jsrep.2024.349350

Abstract

The current research aims to build a measure of academic buoyancy and verify its psychometric properties by calculating its validity, internal consistency, and reliability. To achieve this, the measure was applied to a sample of (300) student teachers at the Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University, whose ages ranged between (20 and 24) years. With an arithmetic mean of (22.006), and a standard deviation of (0.964), during the second semester of the academic year 2022/2023 AD, the results indicated the availability of indications of the validity of the scale, through the validity of the content, as the rate of agreement of the arbitrators on the vocabulary and its association with the six dimensions of the scale that make up the scale was Between (84.61% - 100%), which is a high percentage of agreement. Indications of validity were also reached through confirmatory factor validity, where all the values of the non-standard regression coefficients were significant at the significance level (0.001), which indicates the validity of the factorial structure of the scale according to the data. The sample, and the values of the conformity indicators came in the acceptable range, which indicates the conformity of the confirmatory factor analysis model for the academic buoyancy Scale with the sample data. Indications of the consistency of the scale were also available, as all the values of the correlation coefficients between the score of each position and both the score of the dimension to which it belongs and the total score of the scale. It was statistically significant at the level of (0.01), and there were indications of the scale’s stability using the Cronbach’s alpha method, as the value of the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the dimensions of the scale used ranged between (0.752-0.783), and its value for the scale as a whole reached (0.889), which are acceptable values, which confirms Validity of use of the scale.

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