Designing and Constructing of Interest to School Questionnaire among Elementary School Students

The purpose of this study was design and construct of questionnaire interest to school among elementary school students. The research method was descriptive by psychometrics. The population of research was all of elementary students in the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades in West Azerbaijan province in the academic year of 2019-20, that among them 420 people selected by randomly multi-stage cluster sampling method. Questionnaire content validity was reviewed and confirmed by 14 professors. The CVR value of each question using the Lawshe formula in the range, 0.57 to 0.99 and the S-CVI was calculated 0.87 by Averaging formula. After examining the reliability indices of each question, the existence of high internal consistency in the questionnaire was confirmed. In order to investigate criterion validity, the correlation between the total score of the questionnaire and the correlation between each item and the criterion were calculated that the results were significant at the level of 0.01., The construct validity of the questionnaire through exploratory factor analysis with three factors (participation in school activities, commitment to school and connectedness to school), which explained 75.18% of the total variance of the questionnaire, also was examining and confirmed using confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach's alpha for the whole questionnaire was 0.98 and for each of the factors were 0.979, 0.926 and 0.845, respectively. As a result, the interest to school questionnaire with 28 items for measure the interest to school in the elementary school students, has the optimal reliability and validity