The purpose of this study is to develop a concise Science Achievement Emotions Questionnaire(S-AEQ) suitable for the secondary school students using the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire(AEQ) created by Pekrun et al.(2002). The original questionnaire...
The purpose of this study is to develop a concise Science Achievement Emotions Questionnaire(S-AEQ) suitable for the secondary school students using the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire(AEQ) created by Pekrun et al.(2002). The original questionnaire consists of 232 questions related to the Achievement Emotions, and is geared towards university students. There are several complications when trying to adapt this AEQ to Korean secondary school students. First, the cultural differences in the learning experience of Korean students and students from other countries. Second, we thought 232 questions are too many for secondary school students to answer. As a result, the questions were translated to Korean by three research scientists and six Korean science teachers, who were also graduate students. The learning environment in Korea as well as question comprehension of Korean secondary school students were considered. The translated questions were revised and verified for content validity by specialists in gifted education and science education. A test using the S-AEQ was given to 426 middle and high school students; 305 available test questions were used. We used probability factor analysis on the results of the 305 questions and simplified the three situations of class, learning, and test into two categories: class-learning, test. Through exploratory factor analysis, we were able to narrow down the questions to 42 for class-learning situations and 37 for test situation. These results came from the 4-6 categories we distinguished based on commonalities we detected in the test questions. Finally, the reliability of the chosen questions was reanalyzed and 7 more questions were removed. As a result of our study, we developed a concise S-AEQ for secondary school students consisting of 39 questions for class-learning situations and 33 questions for the test situation.