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The Health Student Academic Locus of Control Scale
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|December 17, 1997
Summary
The Health Student Academic Locus of Control Scale measures student beliefs about control in health-related courses. Its acceptable psychometric properties support its use in longitudinal research.
Area of Science:
- Health Professions Education
- Psychometrics
- Educational Psychology
Background:
- Academic locus of control influences student motivation and performance.
- Health-related fields require specific understanding of student control beliefs.
- Existing scales may not adequately capture context-specific beliefs for health students.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce and validate the Health Student Academic Locus of Control Scale.
- To assess the internal and external control beliefs of students in health-related academic programs.
Main Methods:
- Development of a 20-item, context-specific scale.
- Psychometric evaluation of the scale using a sample of 164 health students.
Main Results:
- The Health Student Academic Locus of Control Scale demonstrated acceptable psychometric properties.
- The scale effectively measures internal and external control beliefs relevant to health students.
Conclusions:
- The validated scale is suitable for measuring academic control beliefs in health students.
- The scale can be utilized in future longitudinal studies to track changes in student beliefs.