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T1 Cross-cultural adaptation of the Science Motivation Questionnaire II (SMQ-II) for Portuguesespeaking Brazilian secondary school students
T2 Adaptação transcultural do Science Motivation Questionnaire II (SMQ-II) para alunos do ensino médio de língua portuguesa do Brasil
A1 Toma, Radu Bogdan
A1 Cordeiro Bizerra, Ayla Márcia
A1 Yánez Pérez, Iraya
A1 Meneses Villagrá, Jesús Ángel
K1 Secondary school
K1 Intrinsic motivation
K1 Career motivation
K1 Grade motivation
K1 Self-efficacy
K1 Escola secundária
K1 Motivação intrínseca
K1 Motivação de carreira
K1 Motivação de série
K1 Auto-eficácia
K1 Enseñanza secundaria
K1 Education, Secondary
K1 Ciencias sociales
K1 Social sciences
K1 Planificación educativa
K1 Educational planning
AB Science motivation is important for students’ scientific literacy. Yet, there is a lack of valid and reliable measurement tools for the Brazilian context. This study presents the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Science Motivation Questionnaire (SMQ-II) and motivational baseline data. Method: The instrument was translated into Brazilian Portuguese using cross-cultural validation procedures. For structural validity evidence, the responses of 646 secondary school students were subjected to exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, as well as measurement invariance. For reliability evidence, Cronbach’s alpha (a) and McDonald’s omega (w) were calculated. Students’ motivation was analysed using 2 (gender) x 4 (grade levels) x 3 (study modality) MANOVA. Results: 24 items measuring intrinsic motivation, career motivation, grade motivation, and self-efficacy supported a four-factor structure with adequate reliability against the original five-factor structure (self-determination was not salient). Measurement invariance was established across the gender and study modalities, but not for grade levels. Higher-grade level Brazilian students were less motivated, and girls reported higher intrinsic and career motivation, but lower self-efficacy than boys. Conclusion: These findings lay the foundation for the assessment of Brazilian students’ science motivation, although they also reveal problems in the latent structure of the SMQ-II and call for the development of instruments rooted in contemporary motivational theories.
PB Konrad Lorenz
SN 0120-0534
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/10375
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/10375
LA eng
NO This study was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO) through the project PID2020-117348RB-I00.The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 01-abr-2025