Development and Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of the Students' Academic Self-Efficacy Questionnaire

This study aimed to develop and determine validity and factor structure of the student Self-efficacy questionnaire. In this study, descriptive method and factor analysis was used. Populations of study were high school student in Khomeini shahr. Among them, 696 students (356 girls &340 boys) were selected with multi-stage random sampling method and responded to Students' Academic Self-efficacy Questionnaire (SASQ) and Jinks & Morgan Academic Self-efficacy Questionnaire (ASQ). Data were analyzed through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, principle component analysis, varimax rotation, and Cronbach’s alpha And then the normal distribution of data on the total score and subscales were studied. The results of exploratory factor analysis were determined by three factors as academic performance, academic skills and academic future self-efficacy. It became clear that all of these factors had eigenvalues ​​greater than 1. Concurrent validity SASQ using the correlation with ASQ Jinks and Morgan (r = 0.73, p =0.001) approved and 0.93 reliability through Cronbach's alpha for the total scale, and for academic performance 0.89, academic skills 0.84, academic future 0.83, were calculated. Students' academic self-efficacy questionnaire of 26 questions for the students could be a valid instrument to measure the academic self-efficacy to be used.