Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Lorestan university
2 Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
Abstract
academic persistence indicates the continuity and behavioral commitment to education and learning that the existence of such a tool was needed in the country. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the psychometric properties of the academic persistence scale. This research is a type of descriptive research that examines the characteristics of psychometrics with a practical purpose. The statistical population of the research consisted of all the students of the first secondary school in Qom city who were studying in the academic year of 1400-1401. A number of 355 students were included in the sample using a multi-stage cluster random method and completed the academic persistence questionnaire of Talib et al. (2018). After collecting the data, they were analyzed using SPSS22 and AMOS22 statistical software and exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis. The results showed that the extracted factor explains 79.93% of the variable of academic persistence. Also, the reliability of the tool was equal to 0.994 using Cronbach's alpha coefficient and 0.989 for the first half and 0.988 for the second half using the two halves method. According to the results of exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis, the Persian version of the academic persistence questionnaire is considered an efficient tool.
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