Psychometric Properties of Persian Form of Engagement Student in School Four-dimension Scale (SES-4DS)

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Saeed  Moshtaghi ¹ (Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Education Department, Dezful Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dezful, Iran)
Maryam  Komaei ² (M. A. in Educational Planning)

Received: 2022-04-02 Accepted : 2022-04-02 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: validation, Student engagement in school, Agency engagement, Affective engagement, Behavioral engagement, Cognitive engagement,

Abstract :

A few tools have presented to assessment student engagement in school one of the important structures in learning and education success, furthermore there is no tools to assess agency engagement component. The aim of this study is to present psychometric indices of Veiga’s "Students Engagement in School Four-dimensional Scale" SES-4DS (2016) for use in Iran. For this purpose, 412 high school students (195 males and 217 females) were randomly chosen by multistage cluster sampling from Ramhormoz city high schools. Psychometric indices were calculated using Cronbach's alpha and confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis. Results showed that the questionnaire has good reliability. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the questionnaire has acceptable fit to the data and indexes of fit goodness for the four-factor model that has formed basis of the questionnaire, was confirmed. These factors were called agency, behavioral, emotional and cognitive engagement like the original study. The results show that "Vegas' Students Engagement in School Scale" with the introduction of agency engagement, can be used as suitable tool in order to measure of student engagement in school in Iran