Escala de Engajamento dos Alunos na Escola Inferido por Professores para alunos do 2º ao 5º ano do ensino fundamental

Abstract

School engagement can contribute to the permanence of students in school and help teachers in the teaching-learning process. In the literature on school engagement there are few specific instruments with validity evidence to measure school engagement in children aged 7 to 12 years. The objective of this study was to construct and obtain evidence of validity of a School Engagement Scale Inferred by Teachers for students in grades 2 to 5 of Elementary School (EEAEIP). The study included 30 teachers from the 2nd to 5th grades of 8 schools in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, which generated data of 523 students. EEAEIP presents good psychometric properties, with Confirmatory Factor Analysis attesting to the four-factor model ('behavioral', 'cognitive', 'affective' and 'agent'). Evidence of the internal consistency of the scale was good with a Crombach's Alpha 0.92 and the interobserver reliability suggests that the construct is assessed in the same way by different observers.