L'école telle qu'ils la voient: Validation d'une mesure des perceptions du contexte scolaire par les élèves du secondaire = School as they see it: Validation of a measure of secondary students' perceptions of the school context
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L'école telle qu'ils la voient: Validation d'une mesure des perceptions du contexte scolaire par les élèves du secondaire = School as they see it: Validation of a measure of secondary students' perceptions of the school context
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement
Créateur
Benoît Galand
Pierre Philippot
Sujet
Educational Objectives
French-language questionnaire
High School Students
Measurement
Psychometrics
Questionnaires
Student Attitudes
Teacher Student Interaction
Teaching Methods
Test Construction
educational goal structures
high school students
psychometric qualities
student perceptions
teacher-student relations
teaching practices
test development
Résumé
The purpose of this study was to develop a French-language questionnaire to measure students' perceptions of the teaching practices to which they are exposed (goal structures and teacher-student relations). The primary objective was to assess the psychometric qualities of the questionnaire with 1,265 students distributed among various high school years. Internal consistency and test-retest stability of the scales proved to be entirely satisfactory. Results of confirmatory factorial analysis demonstrate the scales' construction validity. Results of multiple regressions also indicate that retained perceptions are consistent predictors of students' motivational directions and emotional experience at school, regardless of their socio-demographic or academic characteristics. The study's second goal was to contribute to the theoretical debate over what students' perceptions reflect. Such perceptions have shown to have little dependency on their socio-demographic or academic characteristics. Students' responses also displayed consistency in relation to their class level. Further, the effects of students' perceptions when aggregated in exogenous variables parallel such effects on an individual basis. Finally, students' perceptions are in line with those of their teachers. These results support the notion that students' perceptions are based largely on the characteristics of their school environment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
volume
37
numéro
2
pages
138-154
Date
avril 2005
Titre abrégé
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement
doi
10.1037/h0087251
issn
0008-400X
uri
Editeur
pdh
Source
2005-03699-005