Construction and validation of the scale of engagement to school tasks in classes for the students of the primary level of education

Authors

  • Daiana Yamila Rigo Licenciada en Psicopedagogía, Magíster en Piscología de la Educación y Doctora en Psicología. Docente de la UNRC e investigadora asistente del CONICET, Argentina
  • Danilo Donolo Maestro Normal Nacional, Profesor y Licenciado en Ciencias de la Educación y Doctor en Ciencias de la Educación. Profesor consulto de la UNRC e investigador principal del CONICET, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25057/21452776.1079

Keywords:

engagement, school, interest, self-regulation, assessment, school tasks

Abstract

This paper presents the process of construction and validation of an instrument to assess the engagement of students to school tasks in the primary education classes. The construction of the scale includes items incorporated by other instruments in the fra-mework of research on participation, interest and self-regulation in primary schools, ac-cording to three dimensions, namely: affective, behavioral and cognitive engagement. Participating in the study were 339 primary school students from the Department of Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina. The results obtained from the confirmatory factor analysis show that the data collected are adjusted to the three factor model. They also meet acceptable levels of reliability. In this way, the instrument constructed and adap-ted has psychometric characteristics appropriate to the study context.

Author Biographies

Daiana Yamila Rigo, Licenciada en Psicopedagogía, Magíster en Piscología de la Educación y Doctora en Psicología. Docente de la UNRC e investigadora asistente del CONICET, Argentina

Licenciada en Psicopedagogía, Magíster en Piscología de la Educación y Doctora en Psicología. Docente de la  UNRC e investigadora asistente del CONICET, Argentina

Danilo Donolo, Maestro Normal Nacional, Profesor y Licenciado en Ciencias de la Educación y Doctor en Ciencias de la Educación. Profesor consulto de la UNRC e investigador principal del CONICET, Argentina

Maestro Normal Nacional, Profesor y Licenciado en Ciencias de la Educación y  Doctor en Ciencias de la Educación. Profesor consulto de la UNRC e investigador principal del CONICET, Argentina

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Rigo, D. Y., & Donolo, D. (2018). Construction and validation of the scale of engagement to school tasks in classes for the students of the primary level of education. Psicoespacios, 12(21), 3–22. https://doi.org/10.25057/21452776.1079

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