Development and initial validation of a questionnaire to assess the reading beliefs of undergraduate students: The Cuestionario de Creencias sobre la Lectura

The aim of this research was to develop a new questionnaire for exploring the reading beliefs of undergraduate students, since the only currently available instrument has conceptual and methodological limitations. The paper describes the process of developing the instrument and presents a range of p...

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Autores: Lordán Arias, Eva, Solé, Isabel, Salvador Beltrán, Francesc
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/137578
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/137578
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Tests i proves en educació
Actituds dels alumnes
Educació superior
Educational tests and measurements
Student attitudes
Higher education
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spelling Development and initial validation of a questionnaire to assess the reading beliefs of undergraduate students: The Cuestionario de Creencias sobre la Lectura Lordán Arias, Eva Solé, Isabel Salvador Beltrán, Francesc Tests i proves en educació Actituds dels alumnes Educació superior Educational tests and measurements Student attitudes Higher education The aim of this research was to develop a new questionnaire for exploring the reading beliefs of undergraduate students, since the only currently available instrument has conceptual and methodological limitations. The paper describes the process of developing the instrument and presents a range of psychometric data obtained from a sample of 558 Spanish undergraduates who were in the first or final year of a degree programme in psychology, language and literature, or engineering. The results provide evidence of the psychometric quality of items and reveal a dual structure of two and six factors, both obtained through exploratory and/or confirmatory factor analyses. Adequate reliability based on internal consistency of the factors was also demonstrated. As a measure of criterion validity, differences in reading beliefs by gender, academic year and knowledge areas were also explored. These findings support the psychometric adequacy of this new instrument developed through an exploratory piece of research. Overall, this the process of constructing the instrument and the results from this study provides a framework for research and intervention, in addition to presenting a tooln instrument that both researchers and teaching staff could use in the context of reading and reading comprehension. Wiley https://hdl.handle.net/2445/137578
title Development and initial validation of a questionnaire to assess the reading beliefs of undergraduate students: The Cuestionario de Creencias sobre la Lectura
spellingShingle Development and initial validation of a questionnaire to assess the reading beliefs of undergraduate students: The Cuestionario de Creencias sobre la Lectura
Lordán Arias, Eva
Tests i proves en educació
Actituds dels alumnes
Educació superior
Educational tests and measurements
Student attitudes
Higher education
title_short Development and initial validation of a questionnaire to assess the reading beliefs of undergraduate students: The Cuestionario de Creencias sobre la Lectura
title_full Development and initial validation of a questionnaire to assess the reading beliefs of undergraduate students: The Cuestionario de Creencias sobre la Lectura
title_fullStr Development and initial validation of a questionnaire to assess the reading beliefs of undergraduate students: The Cuestionario de Creencias sobre la Lectura
title_full_unstemmed Development and initial validation of a questionnaire to assess the reading beliefs of undergraduate students: The Cuestionario de Creencias sobre la Lectura
title_sort Development and initial validation of a questionnaire to assess the reading beliefs of undergraduate students: The Cuestionario de Creencias sobre la Lectura
author Lordán Arias, Eva
author_facet Lordán Arias, Eva
Solé, Isabel
Salvador Beltrán, Francesc
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Salvador Beltrán, Francesc
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topic Tests i proves en educació
Actituds dels alumnes
Educació superior
Educational tests and measurements
Student attitudes
Higher education
topic_facet Tests i proves en educació
Actituds dels alumnes
Educació superior
Educational tests and measurements
Student attitudes
Higher education
description The aim of this research was to develop a new questionnaire for exploring the reading beliefs of undergraduate students, since the only currently available instrument has conceptual and methodological limitations. The paper describes the process of developing the instrument and presents a range of psychometric data obtained from a sample of 558 Spanish undergraduates who were in the first or final year of a degree programme in psychology, language and literature, or engineering. The results provide evidence of the psychometric quality of items and reveal a dual structure of two and six factors, both obtained through exploratory and/or confirmatory factor analyses. Adequate reliability based on internal consistency of the factors was also demonstrated. As a measure of criterion validity, differences in reading beliefs by gender, academic year and knowledge areas were also explored. These findings support the psychometric adequacy of this new instrument developed through an exploratory piece of research. Overall, this the process of constructing the instrument and the results from this study provides a framework for research and intervention, in addition to presenting a tooln instrument that both researchers and teaching staff could use in the context of reading and reading comprehension.
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