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An international validation study of two achievement goal measures in a pharmacy education context
BACKGROUND: Achievement goal theory helps us understand what motivates students to participate in educational activities. However, measuring achievement goals in a precise manner is problematic. Elliot and McGregor’s Achievement Goal Questionnaire (AGQ) and Elliot and Murayama’s revised Achievement...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4186489/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25298743 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S68241 |
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author | Alrakaf, Saleh Abdelmageed, Ahmed Kiersma, Mary Coulman, Sion A John, Dai N Tordoff, June Anderson, Claire Noreddin, Ayman Sainsbury, Erica Rose, Grenville Smith, Lorraine |
author_facet | Alrakaf, Saleh Abdelmageed, Ahmed Kiersma, Mary Coulman, Sion A John, Dai N Tordoff, June Anderson, Claire Noreddin, Ayman Sainsbury, Erica Rose, Grenville Smith, Lorraine |
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description | BACKGROUND: Achievement goal theory helps us understand what motivates students to participate in educational activities. However, measuring achievement goals in a precise manner is problematic. Elliot and McGregor’s Achievement Goal Questionnaire (AGQ) and Elliot and Murayama’s revised Achievement Goal Questionnaire (AGQ-R) are widely used to assess students’ achievement goals. Both instruments were developed and validated using undergraduate psychology students in the USA. METHODS: In this study, our aims were to first of all, assess the construct validity of both questionnaires using a cohort of Australian pharmacy students and, subsequently, to test the generalizability and replicability of these tools more widely in schools of pharmacy in other English-speaking countries. The AGQ and the AGQ-R were administered during tutorial class time. Confirmatory factor analysis procedures, using AMOS 19 software, were performed to determine model fit. RESULTS: In contrast to the scale developers’ findings, confirmatory factor analysis supported a superior model fit for the AGQ compared with the AGQ-R, in all countries under study. CONCLUSION: Validating measures of achievement goal motivation for use in pharmacy education is necessary and has implications for future research. Based on these results, the AGQ will be used to conduct future cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of the achievement goals of undergraduate pharmacy students from these countries. |
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spelling | pubmed-41864892014-10-08 An international validation study of two achievement goal measures in a pharmacy education context Alrakaf, Saleh Abdelmageed, Ahmed Kiersma, Mary Coulman, Sion A John, Dai N Tordoff, June Anderson, Claire Noreddin, Ayman Sainsbury, Erica Rose, Grenville Smith, Lorraine Adv Med Educ Pract Original Research BACKGROUND: Achievement goal theory helps us understand what motivates students to participate in educational activities. However, measuring achievement goals in a precise manner is problematic. Elliot and McGregor’s Achievement Goal Questionnaire (AGQ) and Elliot and Murayama’s revised Achievement Goal Questionnaire (AGQ-R) are widely used to assess students’ achievement goals. Both instruments were developed and validated using undergraduate psychology students in the USA. METHODS: In this study, our aims were to first of all, assess the construct validity of both questionnaires using a cohort of Australian pharmacy students and, subsequently, to test the generalizability and replicability of these tools more widely in schools of pharmacy in other English-speaking countries. The AGQ and the AGQ-R were administered during tutorial class time. Confirmatory factor analysis procedures, using AMOS 19 software, were performed to determine model fit. RESULTS: In contrast to the scale developers’ findings, confirmatory factor analysis supported a superior model fit for the AGQ compared with the AGQ-R, in all countries under study. CONCLUSION: Validating measures of achievement goal motivation for use in pharmacy education is necessary and has implications for future research. Based on these results, the AGQ will be used to conduct future cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of the achievement goals of undergraduate pharmacy students from these countries. Dove Medical Press 2014-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4186489/ /pubmed/25298743 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S68241 Text en © 2014 Alrakaf et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Alrakaf, Saleh Abdelmageed, Ahmed Kiersma, Mary Coulman, Sion A John, Dai N Tordoff, June Anderson, Claire Noreddin, Ayman Sainsbury, Erica Rose, Grenville Smith, Lorraine An international validation study of two achievement goal measures in a pharmacy education context |
title | An international validation study of two achievement goal measures in a pharmacy education context |
title_full | An international validation study of two achievement goal measures in a pharmacy education context |
title_fullStr | An international validation study of two achievement goal measures in a pharmacy education context |
title_full_unstemmed | An international validation study of two achievement goal measures in a pharmacy education context |
title_short | An international validation study of two achievement goal measures in a pharmacy education context |
title_sort | international validation study of two achievement goal measures in a pharmacy education context |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4186489/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25298743 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S68241 |
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