Student engagement has traditionally been defined as a metaconstruct made up of three aspects: emotional, behavioral, and cognitive. Recently, however, a fourth component has been proposed, namely the agentic one. Notwithstanding the widely recognized importance of investigating student en-gagement, in Italy a validated scale suitable for this purpose does not exist. The present work represents a first contribution to the validation in Italy of a questionnaire designed to measure student engagement in high school. By combining two separate questionnaires (i.e., the Student Engagement Scale and the Agentic Engagement Scale) within a single instrument, this study focuses on the psychometric proper-ties of a four-dimensional student engagement scale on 1,210 Italian secondary school students. Results confirm the robustness of the four-dimensional structure of the student engagement scale.
Measuring four-dimensional engagement in school: A validation of the Student Engagement Scale and of the Agentic Engagement Scale / Mameli, Consuelo; Passini, Stefano. - In: TPM. TESTING, PSYCHOMETRICS, METHODOLOGY IN APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 1972-6325. - STAMPA. - 24:4(2017), pp. 527-541. [10.4473/TPM24.4.4]
Measuring four-dimensional engagement in school: A validation of the Student Engagement Scale and of the Agentic Engagement Scale
Mameli, Consuelo;Passini, Stefano
2017
Abstract
Student engagement has traditionally been defined as a metaconstruct made up of three aspects: emotional, behavioral, and cognitive. Recently, however, a fourth component has been proposed, namely the agentic one. Notwithstanding the widely recognized importance of investigating student en-gagement, in Italy a validated scale suitable for this purpose does not exist. The present work represents a first contribution to the validation in Italy of a questionnaire designed to measure student engagement in high school. By combining two separate questionnaires (i.e., the Student Engagement Scale and the Agentic Engagement Scale) within a single instrument, this study focuses on the psychometric proper-ties of a four-dimensional student engagement scale on 1,210 Italian secondary school students. Results confirm the robustness of the four-dimensional structure of the student engagement scale.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.