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Questionário de atribuições causais para os resultados escolares: novos elementos a partir de um estudo com alunos do ensino superior português
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Este artigo analisa as características psicométricas do Questionário de Atribuições Causais para o Rendimento Escolar (QARE; Miranda & Almeida, 2008), num grupo de 700 alunos do ensino superior de uma universidade pública portuguesa, a maioria do sexo feminino (55,6%), com uma média de idades nos 21 anos. Este instrumento avalia as atribuições causais para as situações de bom e fraco desempenho académico, respondendo os estudantes numa escala Likert consoante o seu grau de acordo. A análise fatorial exploratória foi conduzida pelo método das componentes principais com rotação varimax e a melhor estrutura encontrada é formada por três agrupamentos de atribuições causais: capacidade, esforço e método de estudo, e contingências externas e aleatórias. Estes resultados apontam que os estudantes no Ensino Superior recorrem sobretudo a aspetos internos ou pessoais para explicar o seu rendimento académico, sugerindo níveis mais elevados de autonomia e autorregulação na aprendizagem. No entanto, as pontuações dos estudantes nas três subescalas não se apresentam correlacionadas de forma expressiva com indicadores objetivos e percebidos do rendimento académico. Face aos resultados psicométricos obtidos tecem-se algumas considerações sobre futuros estudos com este questionário avaliando a motivação académica.
This article analyzes the psychometric characteristics of the questionnaire on Causal Attributions for School Outcomes (QARE; Miranda & Almeida, 2008), in a group of 700 higher education students from a Portuguese public university, most of them female (55.6%) with an average age of 21 years. This questionnaire assesses the causal attributions for good and poor academic achievement, through the responses given by students on a five-points Likert scale according to their degree of agreement. The exploratory factorial analysis was conducted using the principal components method with varimax rotation and the best structure found was formed by three groups of causal assignments: capacity, effort and method of study, and external and random contingencies. These results indicate that students in Higher Education resort mainly to internal or personal aspects to explain their academic performance, suggesting higher levels of autonomy and self-regulation in learning. However, student scores on the three subscales are not significantly correlated with objective and perceived academic performance indicators. Considering the psychometric results obtained, some considerations are presented about future studies with this questionnaire, evaluating the academic motivation.
This article analyzes the psychometric characteristics of the questionnaire on Causal Attributions for School Outcomes (QARE; Miranda & Almeida, 2008), in a group of 700 higher education students from a Portuguese public university, most of them female (55.6%) with an average age of 21 years. This questionnaire assesses the causal attributions for good and poor academic achievement, through the responses given by students on a five-points Likert scale according to their degree of agreement. The exploratory factorial analysis was conducted using the principal components method with varimax rotation and the best structure found was formed by three groups of causal assignments: capacity, effort and method of study, and external and random contingencies. These results indicate that students in Higher Education resort mainly to internal or personal aspects to explain their academic performance, suggesting higher levels of autonomy and self-regulation in learning. However, student scores on the three subscales are not significantly correlated with objective and perceived academic performance indicators. Considering the psychometric results obtained, some considerations are presented about future studies with this questionnaire, evaluating the academic motivation.
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Motivação académica Atribuições causais Ensino Superior Rendimento académico Portugal Academic motivation Causal attributions Higher education Academic performance . Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades
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Vargas, J. G., Miranda, L. C., & Almeida, L. S. (2018). Questionário de atribuições causais para os resultados escolares: novos elementos a partir de um estudo com alunos do ensino superior português. Amazônica-Revista de Psicopedagogia, Psicologia escolar e Educação, 21(1, Jan-Jun), 8-24.