The adolescents’ school engagement: Assessment of its dimensions

  • José Manuel Tomás
    Universidad de Valencia tomasjm[at]uv.es
  • Melchor Gutiérrez
    Universidad de Valencia
  • Patricia Sancho
    Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
  • Silvia Chireac
    Universidad de Valencia
  • Isabel Romero
    Universidade Katyavala Bwila, Benguela, Angola

Abstract

A topic that in the last years is getting relevance in school and students research is school engagement. This topic has been related, among other important constructs, with burnout of teachers and students, school performance, satisfaction with the school, behavioral disruption, goal orientation and motivational climate in the classroom, students-teachers relationships, and life satisfaction of the students. School engagement may be defined as the participation of the student in academic achievements, and it is understood as a multidimensional construct. The most repeated typology of dimensions recognizes three specific and overlapping dimensions: cognitive, behavioral, and emotional (affective). Frequently, education professionals have reported the lack of instruments to measure some students’ characteristics and psychosocial and behavioral variables in the classroom, as it is the case of school engagement. Recently, a fourth new dimension, personal agency, has been proposed (Reeve and Tseng, 2011). Veiga (2013) has been the first to present a self-report instrument, in Portuguese, to measure these four components, the Student Engagement Scale-4 dimensions (ses-4ds). Taken all this into account, the aim of this research was to study the reliability and validity of the aforementioned scale in two versions, Spanish and Portuguese, in large samples from the Dominican Republic and Angola. Results have shown a clear factor structure (after deleting two items), and adequate criterion-related and nomological validity. Accordingly, the ses-4d scale was considered a valid instrument to be applied in studies measuring school engagement of teenagers. 
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Author Biographies

José Manuel Tomás

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Universidad de Valencia
Departamento de Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento. Facultad de Psicología

Melchor Gutiérrez

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Universidad de Valencia
Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación. Facultad de Psicología

Patricia Sancho

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Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
Departamento de Educación. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicación

Silvia Chireac

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Universidad de Valencia
Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura. Facultad de Magisterio

Isabel Romero

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Universidade Katyavala Bwila, Benguela, Angola
Departamento de Ciências da Educação. Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação
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