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| Abstract Title: | Developing a STEM Transfer-Self Efficacy Survey: Methods of item generation and validation |
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| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Abstract: | Research suggests that self-efficacy is a productive lens that can provide a better understanding of the complicated experiences student's go through when transferring from two-year colleges (associate-granting institutions) to bachelor's degree granting institutions [1] . As part of a larger project, we have begun the development of a survey to measure community college student's STEM Transfer Self-Efficacy (S-TSE). In this paper, we discuss the first stage of our process -- generating items from multiple sources. Our first two sources of item generation included the more traditional approaches: adapting existing items from the Laanan-Transfer Students' Questionnaire [2-4] and generating new items from the first author's personal transfer experience. We will also describe a new approach that we found useful for our context, item generation from existing qualitative studies [1-5]. We will present a system of lenses used to generate items from previously published interview data and discuss the merits of this method for generating S-TSE items. Researchers looking to create quantitative survey tools to measure other affective constructs could benefit from using this method as a foundation for their own holistic process. |
| Footnote: | [1] S. H. Buenaflor, Transfer Student Self-Efficacy: A Success- Oriented Narrative of the Transfer Student Experience, (2023) [2] F. S. Laanan, STUDYING TRANSFER STUDENTS: PART I: INSTRUMENT DESIGN AND IMPLICATIONS, Community College Journal of Research and Practice 28, 331 (2004). [3] K. Moser, Redefining transfer student success: Transfer cap- ital and the Laanan-transfer students' questionnaire (L-TSQ) revisited, Doctor of Philosophy, Iowa State University, Digital Repository, Ames (2012), pages: 3437781. [4] K. M. Moser, Exploring the Impact of Transfer Capital on Community College Transfer Students, Journal of The First- Year Experience & Students in Transition(2013), pub- lisher: National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition ERIC Number: EJ1031678. [5] C. Maliszewski Lukszo and S. Hayes, Facilitating Transfer Stu- dent Success: Exploring Sources of Transfer Student Capital, Community College Review(2020). |
| Session Time: | Poster Session A |
| Poster Number: | A-24 |
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Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
John Byrd Michigan State University Okemos, MI 48864 Phone: 2312532541 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Vashti Sawtelle (she/her), Michigan State University, Lyman Briggs College and Department of Physics and Astronomy Rachel Henderson, Michigan State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy and CREATE for STEM Institute |
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