Construction and psychometric evaluation of the Scale for the Assessment of Strategies on Writing
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cognitive processes self-assessment tool writing strategies psychometric properties
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The main objective of the present study was the construction of a psychometric tool for the assessment of strategies on writing designed for students aged 10 to 12 years and based on the theoretical framework of Chamot & O’Malley (1990). The instrument’s validity was tested through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses on the data collected from a sample of 917 primary school students attending grades 5 and 6. Test-retest reliability and internal consistency were also examined. The final version of the tool is reliable and contains 23 items organized in four factors measuring cognitive, metacognitive, social and emotional strategies of written expression.
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Μαστροθανάσης Κ., Ρούσσος Π., & Κουλιανού Μ. (2018). Construction and psychometric evaluation of the Scale for the Assessment of Strategies on Writing. Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society, 23(1), 128–143. https://doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.23022
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