Adapting Intrinsic Motivation Scale: Assessing Prospective Teacher’s Motivation

Abstract

The current paper was carried out to evaluate the psychometric properties of Intrinsic Motivation Scale (IMS), originally developed by IBRAHIM AND AL-ALI in the year 2016 in Arabic. IMS was consisted of 35 items originally, which were reduced to 25 items after reviewed by experts. It was on the 5-point Likert scale. After translating, validating and incorporating the changings IMS was administrated on 450 students of B.Ed. Hons and M.A Education of public universities situated in Lahore, to confirm the structure of the IMS in locale scenario, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was run. In the light of results of factor loading against each item four items EL2, EL3, EL4 and D5 were excluded. Twenty one items were remained in the overall scale. Both AVE and CR values of each factor are laying in the accepted range. Value of Cronbach alpha for focus on performance was 0.903, 0.897 for enjoy learning, 0.883 for determination, and value of overall scale is 0.934. However, there is also need to validate IMS in other educational fields with some other sample to fully test it in educational context.