Psychometric characteristics of Reeve's academic engagement questionnaire 2013: with the introduction of the Agentic Engagement

A few tools have presented to assessment academic engagement as one of the important structures in learning and education success, furthermore there is no tools to assess agentic engagement component. The aim of this study is to present psychometric indices of Reeve’s academic engagement questionnaire (2013) for use in Iran. For this purpose, 224 high school students (97 males and 127 females) were randomly chosen by multistage cluster sampling from Birjand city high schools. Psychometric indices were calculated using Cronbach's alpha and confirmatory factor analysis. Results showed that the questionnaire has good reliability (92/0). Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the questionnaire has acceptable fit to the data and indexes of fit goodness for the four-factor model that has formed basis of the questionnaire, was confirmed. These factors were called agentic, behavioral, emotional and cognitive engagement like the original study. The results show that Reeve’s academic engagement questionnaire with the introduction of agentic engagement, can be used as suitable tool in order to measure of academic engagement in Iran.