DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC MOTIVATION QUESTIONNAIRE (SAMQ)
Abstract
The main objective of the present study was to develop and validate a tool to measure academic motivation among secondary school students called the secondary school student’s academic motivation questionnaire (SAMQ) with two sub-dimensions: Intrinsic Motivation (IM) and Extrinsic Motivation (EM). The initial draft, comprising nineteen (19) items, was pilot-tested on 248 secondary school students enrolled in 10th grade at public schools. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was also ensured to make the model fit through AMOS software. The results of the test affirmed that the model is valid and reliable; it reduced to thirteen (13) items with α =0.743, out of which seven (7) items retained for the Intrinsic Motivation (IM), and six (6) items retained for the Extrinsic Motivation (EM). Thus, the results provided evidence for using secondary school students' academic motivation questionnaires (SAMQ) to identify and measure academic motivation among secondary school students.
