The Students Perceptions of School Success Promoting Strategies Inventory (SPSI): development and validity evidence based studies

• Paulo A.S. Moreira ^[1] ; Joao Tiago Oliveira ^[1] ; Paulo César Dias ^[1] ; Filipa Machado Vaz ^[1] ; Isabel Torres-Oliveira ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Lusíada do Porto

     Universidade Lusíada do Porto

     Santo Ildefonso, Portugal

     
• Localización: The Spanish Journal of Psychology, ISSN 1138-7416, Vol. 17, 2014, págs. 1-14
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1017/sjp.2014.62
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  • 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.

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