Adaptation and Validation of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire for Spanish Adolescents.

Adrián Segura-Robles,Antonio-José Moreno-Guerrero,María-Elena Parra-González,Jesús López-Belmonte

doi:10.3390/ejihpe11010012

Abstract

This work adapts and validates the scale of the motivated strategies for learning questionnaire (MSLQ), which is used to measure motivation. For this, an instrumental design was carried out with the purpose of analyzing the psychometric properties of the instrument. The sample consisted of 307 participants enrolled in compulsory secondary education. Reliability with fit indices were good in model B (proposed) with composite reliability, global reliability index, and Cronbach’s alpha. The original model (A) presented small problems that had to be adjusted when carrying out the translation. We concluded that adaptation and subsequent validation of the MSLQ instrument into a Spanish context was positive. In this sense, adequate adjustment rates have been achieved. However, in its contextual adequacy, the need arises to modify the presentation of the items alluding to intrinsic motivation due to the difficulty of measuring such a construct. Among the implications reached in this study is the possibility of having a validated instrument for the Spanish adolescent context to measure motivation on educational aspects. Furthermore, this tool can serve as the basis for the design of other instruments that measure this construct in other age ranges.

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Student learning is the purpose of any pedagogical act [1]
This kind of analysis is routinely used for questionnaire validation, in psychology and the social sciences [64]
The results show that two factors appear after the analysis, as in the original model and that the items are grouped almost exactly with the originals

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Introduction

Student learning is the purpose of any pedagogical act [1] This fact appears to be simple yet carries a set of implications that need to be properly developed [2]. There is consensus in the scientific literature when it comes to defining motivation [5] This is considered as an individual state or condition of each person that promotes a series of actions in the subject [6]. Extrinsic motivation moves an individual to carry out actions in order to satisfy his environment [11] In this case, the person tries to gain recognition of his environment, be it near or distant [12]

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