Co-operative learning, psychometric adaptation, and invariability of the academic satisfaction scale in Spanish university students
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Cooperative learning Academic satisfaction Spanish population Invariance Psychometric Properties
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2022-09-21Referencia bibliográfica
Robles-Bello MA... [et al.] (2022) Co-operative learning, psychometric adaptation, and invariability of the academic satisfaction scale in Spanish university students. Front. Psychol. 13:864510. doi: [10.3389/fpsyg.2022.864510]
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University of Jaen PIMED55_201921Abstract
It is necessary to understand the measurement of academic satisfaction (AS)
in a variety of cross-cultural contexts. The first aim was to evaluate the
psychometric properties of AS scale, to explore its structural validity, to assess
its differential item function, including gender and age invariance in university
students. Study 2 aimed to assess whether AS improved after the application
of a teaching instructional approach based on cooperative learning (CL),
while a cross-sectional study was performed in several stages. Descriptive,
confirmatory, and scale reliability analyses were carried out with indices for
goodness-of-fit, such that a new scale was obtained with a single-factor
structure. A reduction to 6-items in this sample exhibited better psychometric
properties. Configural invariance by gender and age indicated that men
and women had a similar understanding of the new scale. Given significant
differences between groups, the CL group scored higher in AS.