Adaptation of academic success inventory for college students of the Indonesian: validity and reliability study

Abstract

Academic success is defined differently by experts. Some define academic success as a score of learning outcomes in the form of Grade Point Average (GPA) or Standardized Test Scores (SAT). Some define it as academic achievement, academic performance, academic outcomes, and GPA as a tool for measurement. However, academic success is not just the value of learning outcomes in the form of GPA/SAT. It contains very important psychological variables. Therefore, there is a need for a more comprehensive measurement of academic success, not only from a cognitive aspect but also from a psychological aspect. The research objective was to adapt the Academic Success Inventory for College Students (ASICS) instrument developed by Prevatt et al. (2011) in America into Indonesian culture and language so that it can be used to measure the academic success of Indonesian students. The adaptation method, as described by Beaton et al. (2000), includes translations, synthesis, expert committee review, and pretesting. The research respondents were 364 students in the province of East Java, Indonesia. Data analysis used confirmatory factor analysis. The results showed that the loading factor values ranged from 0.716 to 0.959, meeting the minimum validity criteria. the Cronbach's alpha value is between 0.747 and 0.869, and the Composite reliability value is between 0.748 and 0.873. The Average Variance Extracted value is between 0.546 and 0.781.

Keywords

• academic success
• instrument adaptation
• psychometric properties
• validity
• reliability
• college students

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