About the Measure
| Domains | Motivation, goal orientation and perseverance, Social and Emotional Competence |
| Key stages | Key Stage 3 |
| Subscales | Prosocial goals; Compliance goals; Mastery goals; Evaluation goals |
| Description | Prosocial goal pursuit was assessed with scale that measured students' efforts to share and to help peers with social problems and efforts to share and to help classmates with academic problems. |
| Example | How often do you try to be nice to kids when something bad has happened to them? |
| Link | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0272431693013001001 |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 6 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 11-13 |
| Cost single purchase | Free |
| Cost per child | Free |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .84 |
| Test retest | Not reported |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | Not reported |
| CFA | Not reported |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Not reported |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Wentzel K. (1991). Relations between Social Competence and Academic Achievement in Early Adolescence. Child Development. 62(5). 1066-1078. doi:10.2307/1131152 Wentzel, K. R. (1993). Motivation and Achievement in Early Adolescence: The Role of Multiple Classroom Goals. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 13(1), 4–20. doi:10.1177/0272431693013001001 Wentzel K. (1994). Relations of social goal pursuit to social acceptance, classroom behavior, and perceived social support. Journal of Educational Psychology, 86. 173–182. doi:10.1037//0022-0663.86.2.173 |