The students' perceptions of School Success Promoting Strategies Inventory (SPSI): development and validity evidence based studies

Paulo A. S. Moreira, João Tiago Oliveira, Paulo Dias, Filipa Machado Vaz, Isabel Torres-Oliveira

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Abstract

Students' perceptions about school success promotion strategies are of great importance for schools, as they are an indicator of how students perceive the school success promotion strategies. The objective of this study was to develop and analyze the validity evidence based of The Students' Perceptions of School Success Promoting Strategies Inventory (SPSI), which assesses both individual students' perceptions of their school success promoting strategies, and dimensions of school quality. A structure of 7 related factors was found, which showed good adjustment indices in two additional different samples, suggesting that this is a well-fitting multi-group model (p <.001). All scales presented good reliability values. Schools with good academic results registered higher values in Career development, Active learning, Proximity, Educational Technologies and Extra-curricular activities (p <.05). SPSI showed to be adequate to measure within-schools (students within schools) dimensions of school success. In addition, there is preliminary evidence for its adequacy for measuring school success promotion dimensions between schools for 4 dimensions. This study supports the validity evidence based of the SPSI (validity evidence based on test content, on internal structure, on relations to other variables and on consequences of testing). Future studies should test for within- and between-level variance in a bigger sample of schools.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere61
JournalSpanish Journal of Psychology
Volume17
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Nov 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Assessment instruments
  • Psychometric properties
  • School success promotion strategies
  • Validity evidence based

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