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The School Attitude Assessment Survey-Revised: A New Instrument to Identify Academically Able Students Who Underachieve

D. Betsy McCoach

University of Connecticut

Del Siegle

University of Connecticut

The purpose of this study was to design a psychometrically sound instrument to measure adolescents' attitudes toward school, attitudes toward teachers, goal-valuation, motivation, and general academic self-perceptions that could be used to explore the underachievement of academically able secondary school students. The final School Attitude Assessment Survey-Revised (SAAS-R) instrument consisted of 35 questions, each of which being an indicator of one of the five factors. The final model exhibited reasonable fit, X2(550) = 1,581.7, Comparative Fit Index = .91, Tucker Lewis Index = .92, root mean square error of approximation = .059, standardized root mean squared residual = .057. The scores in this study showed internal consistency reliability coefficient of at least .85 on each of the five factors. In addition, four of the five factors of the SAAS-R appear to differentiate gifted achievers from gifted underachievers. It is the authors' hope that the SAAS-R will allow researchers to more fully understand the relationship between these five factors and underachievement in gifted and nongifted populations.

Key Words: underachievement • instrument validation • motivation • gifted underachiever • high school students

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 63, No. 3, 414-429 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0013164403063003005
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