title: Psychometric properties of the Spanish Adaptation of the School Attitude Assessment Survey-Revised.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The assessment of attitudes toward school with the objective of identifying adolescents who may be at risk of underachievement has become an important area of research in educational psychology, although few specific tools for their evaluation have been designed to date. One of the instruments available is the School Attitude Assessment Survey-Revised (SAAS-R).
  
  
  METHODS
  The objective of the current research is to test the construct validity and to analyze the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the SAAS-R. Data were collected from 1,398 students attending different high schools. Students completed the SAAS-R along with measures of the g factor, and academic achievement was obtained from school records.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Confirmatory factor analysis, multivariate analysis of variance and analysis of variance tests supported the validity evidence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results indicate that the Spanish version of the SAAS-R is a useful measure that contributes to identification of underachieving students. Lastly, the results obtained and their implications for education are discussed.
authors: Universidad de Alicante.
authors: Pablo
authors: P
authors: Miñano Pérez
authors: Juan Luis
authors: JL
authors: Castejón Costa
authors: Raquel
authors: R
authors: Gilar Corbí
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations