About the Measure
| Domains | Mental health and wellbeing, Motivation, goal orientation and perseverance |
| Key stages | Key Stage 4 |
| Subscales | Effort; Expectancies; Importance; Interest; Cost |
| Description | This instrument is a self-report measure designed to gain insight into students' motivation for tests, based on the assumption that a lack of this may explain underperformance in some cases. It seems to only have been validated with Swedish school pupils though an English version is reported in the article by Kneta and Eklof (2015). |
| Example | I spent more effort on this test than I do on other tests we have in school |
| Link | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0734282914551956 |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 19 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 15-16 |
| Cost single purchase | Available in jou |
| Cost per child | Available in jou |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | w= .71-. |
| Test retest | Not reported |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | Not reported |
| CFA | 2 separate CFAs Low-stakes Chi-square(80) = 432 n = 1047 p < .001 CFI = 0.92 RMSEA = .065 SRMR = .057 High-stakes Chi-square(80) = 269 n = 536 p < .001 CFI = 0.90 RMSEA = .066 SRMR = .065 |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Not reported |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | beta= [.13,.85] in predicting test results (p<.001) |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Knekta, E., & Eklöf, H. (2015). Modeling the test-taking motivation construct through investigation of psychometric properties of an expectancy-value-based questionnaire. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 33(7), 662-673. doi:10.1177/0734282914551956 |