Resumen de Development of a survey to explore out-of-class engagement of engineering students
Denise R. Simmons, Yincheng Ye, Nathaniel J. Hunsu, Olusola O. Adesope
This study describes the development and validation of the Postsecondary Student Engagement (PosSE) Survey, aninventory designed to assess indicators of affective engagement associated with student disposition toward their academicdiscipline, career and themselves, other students, and faculty. The PosSE Survey was developed to elucidate therelationships between STEM students’ out-of-class activity involvement, factors that influence such involvement, andtheir perceptions of their learning outcomes. Two rounds of reliability analysis and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) wereconducted on data from 129 survey respondents. The first analysis examined the internal consistency of the original itemsdeveloped to assess each construct of the PosSE Survey and validate the instrument. We re-analyzed Cronbach’s coefficientalpha of each construct on the instrument after the EFA to examine how the items and related latent constructs wereimproved in terms of internal consistency reliability. These analyses provided results that helped develop and validate the27 items and 7 factors of the PosSE Survey. Future work requires wider survey distribution and larger sample sizes so thatdata can be used to create a more nuanced profile of student engagement, particularly among underrepresented studentpopulations.
