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  • Higher Education Studies
  • Sociology of Education

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  • Effective socialization is crucial for undergraduate academic and personal transitions.
  • Universities lack specific tools to measure academic socialization.
  • Existing measures do not adequately capture the academic context across developmental stages.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate the Undergraduate Socialization Questionnaire (USQ) for academic contexts.
  • To create a reliable measure of academic socialization applicable at different stages of undergraduate study.

Main Methods:

  • Study One: Examined the three-factor structure (task, group, organization) of the USQ using data from 451 undergraduates.
  • Study Two: Tested the USQ's construct invariance across time with a two-wave longitudinal design (n=185) tracking first and second-year students.

Main Results:

  • Findings confirmed the USQ's dimensionality and measurement invariance.
  • The study demonstrated the USQ's concurrent and predictive validity for assessing academic socialization.

Conclusions:

  • The USQ is a dependable instrument for monitoring undergraduate adjustment.
  • It enables comparisons between student groups and longitudinal evaluations of academic development and policy effectiveness.
  • The USQ can help identify students at risk of marginalization or dropout.