KMID : 1038320140110010019
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º¸°ÇÀÇ·á±³À°Æò°¡ 2014 Volume.11 No. 1 p.19 ~ p.19
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Assessing the reliability and validity of the Revised Two Factor Study Process Questionnaire (R-SPQ2F) in Ghanaian medical students
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Mogre Victor
Amalba Anthony
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Abstract
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Purpose: We investigated the validity and reliability of the Revised Two Factor Study Process Questionnaire (R-SPQ2F) in preclinical students in Ghana.
Methods: The R-SPQ2F was administered to 189 preclinical students of the University for Development Studies, School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Both descriptive and inferential statistics with Cronbach¡¯s alpha test and factor analysis were done.
Results: The mean age of the students was 22.69¡¾ 0.18years, 60.8% (n=115) were males and 42.3% (n=80) were in their second year of medical training. The students had higher mean deep approach scores (31.23¡¾7.19) than that of surface approach scores (22.62¡¾6.48). Findings of the R-SPQ2F gave credence to a solution of two-factors indicating deep and surface approaches accounting for 49.80% and 33.57%, respectively, of the variance. The scales of deep approach (Cronbach¡¯s alpha, 0.80) and surface approach (Cronbach¡¯s alpha, 0.76) and their subscales demonstrated an internal consistency that was good. The factorial validity was comparable to other studies.
Conclusion: Our study confirms the construct validity and internal consistency of the R-SPQ2F for measuring approaches to learning in Ghanaian preclinical students. Deep approach was the most dominant learning approach among the students. The questionnaire can be used to measure students¡¯ approaches to learning in Ghana and in other African countries.
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KEYWORD
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Learning, Statistical factor analysis, Medical students, Validity, Reproducibility of results, Ghana
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