Academic expectations questionnaire: a proposal for a short version

• Autor(a) principal: Casanova, Joana R.
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Almeida, Leandro S., Peixoto, Francisco, Ribeiro, Rui Bártolo, Marôco, João
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/58929
• topic: Expectations; Higher education; First-year students; Academic adjustment; Assessment; Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Educação; Social Sciences

Academic expectations play a significant role in the quality of student adaptation and academic success. Previous research suggests that expectations are a multidimensional construct, making it crucial to test the measures used for this important characteristic. Because assessment of student adaptation to higher education comprises a multitude of personal and contextual variables, including expectations, shortened versions of assessment instruments are critical. In this article, confirmatory factor analysis was used to obtain a short version of the Academic Perceptions Questionnaire–Expectations (APQ-E). Participants were 3,017 first-year Portuguese college students. The results support the use of a shorter version of 24 items, distributed over six dimensions, with good reliability and validity.