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Assessing agency of university students : validation of the AUS Scale

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Jääskelä, P., Poikkeus, A.-M., Vasalampi, K., Valleala, U. M., & Rasku-Puttonen, H. (2017). Assessing agency of university students : validation of the AUS Scale. Studies in Higher Education, 42(11), 2061-2079. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1130693
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Studies in Higher Education
Authors
Jääskelä, Päivikki |
Poikkeus, Anna-Maija |
Vasalampi, Kati |
Valleala, Ulla Maija |
Rasku-Puttonen, Helena
Date
2017
Discipline
Esi- ja alkuopetusKasvatuspsykologiaKasvatustiedePre- and Early Childhood EducationKasvatuspsykologiaEducation
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© 2016 Society for Research into Higher Education. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Taylor & Francis. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.

 
Fostering agency as a core component of professionalism is seen as a critical task of higher education. However, the tools for assessing university students’ agency, and the pedagogical and relational resources needed for its development, are lacking. The present study describes the theoretical foundations and factor structure of the newly developed Agency of University Students (AUS) Scale, which assesses students’ course-specific agency. In the factor analysis, ten factors emerged. Four of these – Interest and motivation, Self-efficacy, Competence beliefs and Participation activity – are seen to represent individual resources of agency. The other four factors – Equal treatment, Teacher support, Peer support and Trust – represent relational sources of agency. Finally, Opportunities to influence, and Opportunities to make choices represent contextual sources of agency. The psychometric properties and uses of the scale are discussed.
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Routledge; Society for Research into Higher Education
ISSN Search the Publication Forum
0307-5079
Keywords
agency assessment university students scale development toimijuus opiskelijat yliopistot korkeakoulut
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https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1130693
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http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201710264070

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https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/25520297

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