Crediting of Reading motivation questionnaire (MRQ) among primary school students
Document Type : Original Article
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1 Associate Professor in Educational Sciences Department, Literature & Human Sciences Faculty, University of Qom, Qom, Iran
2 دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد روان شناسی تربیتی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه قم، قم، ایران
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Background: reading motivation relies on its relationship to achievement and behavioral outcomes. Reading motivation has been defined as the enduring readiness of a person to initiate reading activities. Purpose: The current research addresses the reliability of the Motivation of Reading questionnaire (MRQ) among primary school student. Method: The research method was descriptive for the purpose of questionnaire development with on an applied-purpose attitude. The population included all the primary school student in grade two of Yazd city in the academic year of 2017-18. The sampling approach was multistage cluster-random and the final sample included 288 students (142 girls, 146 boys). The research instructs were Gutherrie & Wigfield (1997) reading motivation questionnaire (MRQ). In order to analyze the data, mean, standard deviation, validation, factor analyze & reliability checking used. result: Motivation Of Reading questionnaire (MRQ) had 11 factors & 53 items, and enjoyed acceptable leveling. CFA, similarly, approved the 11 factor model proposed by questionnaire. In other words, the MRQ was compared in term of face, content, factor, correlation of items, & correlational factors. Also the overall reliability and nine factor reliability of the questionnaire were approved. Therefor, above-mentioned questionnaire can further applied by other researchers investigation teaching due to it’s psychometric features and strong factorial design.
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