Developing and Validate a Scale for Assessing of Students’ Academic Motivational Potential

The purpose of this applied research was to develop and validate a scale to assess students' academic motivation potential.
Research

Descriptive is methodological. The statistical population was all students of Shiraz University. In order to check the content validity, the scale was provided to 25 faculty members of Shiraz University. In order to check the face validity, the scale was distributed among 201 students. The sampling method was multi-stage cluster. Due to the lack of such a scale in the academic environment, Wagner and Helenbeck (1995) motivational potential questionnaire was used as a basis and the dimensions and items were reconstructed according to the academic environment. Data analysis was performed using MPS formula and Spss23 software to analyze the variance of repeated measures and multivariate analysis of variance.

The validity and reliability of the dimensions of the students' academic motivation potential scale were appropriate. After confirming the validity and reliability, the developed scale was used to assess the status of academic motivation potential of Shiraz University students to evaluate its applicability, which has been developed and validated for the first time.

The results showed that the motivational potential of the departments of Shiraz University is very low. Comparison of the dimensions of academic motivational potential also showed that the highest mean belongs to the dimension of importance and the lowest mean belongs to the dimension of feedback and there is a significant difference between the dimensions of motivational potential in different educational groups.