Cross-Cultural Validity Evidence for a Motivation Inventory: Relationships Between Course Perceptions, Behavioral Engagement, and Achievement

• In Event: Achievement Goals

Abstract

The primary aim of this study was to determine whether the MUSIC Model of Academic Motivation Inventory produced valid scores in university English language courses across four different countries. We surveyed 1,147 students in English language courses in Iran, Mexico, China, and Egypt and analyzed their responses by performing measurement invariance testing using multiple group confirmatory factor analysis. The data fit the models well and the configural, metric, and scalar invariance held across the four countries, indicating that the measures of the five course perceptions functioned similarly across countries. We also documented that students’ course perceptions accounted for 40% to 50% of the variance in behavioral engagement and behavioral engagement accounted for 0% to 12% of the variance in achievement.

Authors

• Brett D. Jones, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Gholam Hassan Kajavy, University of Bojnord

• Ming Li, Shanghai University of Engineering Science

• Hanaa Ezzat Mohamed, Fayoum University

• Peter Reilly, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico