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Psicothema, 2008. Vol. Vol. 20 (nº 4). 883-889




Development and initial validation of the Classroom Motivational Climate Questionnaire (CMCQ)

Jesús Alonso Tapia and Blanca Fernández Heredia*

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and * Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (México)

Research on classroom goal-structures (CGS) has shown the usefulness of assessing the classroom motivational climate to evaluate educational interventions and to promote changes in teachers’ activity. So, the Classroom Motivational Climate Questionnaire for Secondary and High-School students was developed. To validate it, confirmatory factor analysis and correlation and regression analyses were performed. Results showed that the CMCQ is a highly reliable instrument that covers many of the types of teaching patterns that favour motivation to learn, correlates as expected with other measures of CGS, predicts satisfaction with teacher’s work well, and allows detecting teachers who should revise their teaching.

Desarrollo y validación inicial del Cuestionario de Clima Motivacional de Clase (CMC-Q). La investigación sobre estructura de metas de clase ha mostrado la necesidad de evaluar el clima motivacional para facilitar la valoración de las actividades educativas y promover su cambio. Con este fin se ha desarrollado el Cuestionario de Clima Motivacional de Clase, para Secundaria y Bachillerato. Para validarlo se han realizado análisis factoriales confirmatorios, de correlaciones y de regresión. Los resultados han mostrado un instrumento fiable, que cubre los principales patrones de actuación que estimulan la motivación por aprender, que correlaciona en forma esperada con medidas similares, que predice excelentemente la satisfacción con el profesor y que permite detectar qué profesores necesitan cambiar.

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Impact factor 2022:  JCR WOS 2022:  FI = 3.6 (Q2);  JCI = 1.21 (Q1) / SCOPUS 2022:  SJR = 1.097;  CiteScore = 6.4 (Q1)