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A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Psychometric Properties of Responses to the Achievement Goal Questionnaire

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Mingming Zhou

Simon Fraser University, Canada, mzhou2{at}sfu.ca

John C. Nesbit

Simon Fraser University, Canada

The psychometric properties of scores from the Achievement Goal Questionnaire were examined in samples of Japanese (N = 326) and Canadian (N = 307) postsecondary students. Previous research found evidence of a four-factor structure of achievement goals in U.S. samples. Using confirmatory factor-analytic techniques, the authors found strong evidence for the four-factor structure of achievement goals in both the Canadian and Japanese populations. Subsequent multigroup structural equation modeling indicated the metric invariance of this four-factor structure across the two populations.

Key Words: achievement goals • validity • multigroup confirmatory factor analysis

This version was published on April 1, 2009

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 69, No. 2, 266-286 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0013164408322017


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