Course Dropout Intention Scale: Development and Validation of a New Brief Measure in Academic College Context

• Autores: Yupanqui-Lorenzo, Daniel E., Jara-Osorio, Lizbeth Angela, Carbajal-León, Carlos, Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás, Sernaqué, Manuel Antonio Cardoza, Quispe, Kerly Stefanny Duran
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2024
• Institución: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
• Repositorio: UPC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/675745
• Enlace del recurso: https://doi.org/10.12973/eu-jer.13.1.103; http://hdl.handle.net/10757/675745
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Brief measure; college student; course dropout; dropout intention; dropout studies; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.00.00

University students may encounter situations where they perform poorly in a course and contemplate dropping out. This intention to drop out of a course manifests not only in thoughts or ideas but also in a cognitive self-evaluation of their performance and skills, enabling them to reflect on the possibility of dropping out. In this sense, there is a shortage of instruments that evaluate the intention to drop out of a course, so the aim was to develop and validate the Course Dropout Intention Scale (CDIS). Data from two samples (N1 = 198; N2 = 675) were used; the first was for the EFA, and the second was for the CFA, GRM, and SEM. The one-factor model was derived from the EFA and confirmed in the second sample, exhibiting appropriate goodness-of-fit indices. Similarly, the GRM obtained adequate fit indices; all items discriminated adequately, and the difficulty parameter had a monotonic increase. The SEM model of the effect of satisfaction with studies on the CDIS showed a negative and statistically significant effect. Thus, it was demonstrated that the CDIS is a robust instrument in its psychometric properties and empirical evidence with other variables.