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Development And Initial Validation Of A Measure Of Attributions For Writing Success And Failure, Mingying Zheng
Development And Initial Validation Of A Measure Of Attributions For Writing Success And Failure, Mingying Zheng
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The purpose of this study was to develop and provide initial validation of an instrument to measure writing attributional style among college students, the Attributional Style Questionnaire for Writing (ASQ-W). A sample of 133 college students from a Midwestern university participated in the current study. A qualitative and quantitative mixed method study was conducted to report the perceived causes for writing success and failure and examine the internal consistency, discriminant validity, and predictive validity of the measure. Two other surveys— Liking Writing Scale (LWS) and Self-Efficacy for Writing Scale (SEWS)—also were administered to provide preliminary information on validity for the …