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Developing a STEM Transfer-Self Efficacy Survey: Methods of item generation and validation

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Research suggests that self-efficacy is a productive lens that can provide potential for better understanding the complicated experience [1] of transferring from two-year colleges (associate-granting institutions) to bachelor's degree granting institutions.We have begun the development of a survey to measure community college student's STEM Transfer Self-Efficacy (S-TSE).In this poster we discuss the critical step of developing a new survey; generating items from multiple sources.Our first step of developing items for the S-TSE survey was to adapt existing items from the Laanan-Transfer Students' Questionnaire developed by Lanaan [2] and refined by Moser [3,4].We then generated additional items through reflecting on the first author's personal transfer experience.We will present a system of lenses used to generate quantitative survey items from previously published qualitative research papers [1,5].We will also present analysis of the items generated and discuss the merits of this methodology for generating items.

Source: Physics Education Research Conference (PERC)

DOI: 10.1119/perc.2025.pr.byrd

Authors: John Byrd, Vashti Sawtelle, Rachel Henderson

Institution: Michigan State University

Language: English

Topic: Higher Education Research Studies

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: National Science Foundation