A Construction Study Of Personal Learning Evaluation Scale For Middle School Students

Personal learning is a personal style, its object is to realize the best development of one's ability and personality, as well as self-fulfillment and be individuation. The personality learning process reflects one's unique character, development, potential and creativity. Based on some theories related and on some researches in China and abroad, our study integrate 9 aspects which have heavy impact on personality learning, and through psychometric methods, to assess middle school students' individual learning style scientifically and systemically. These aspects are learning style, multiple intelligences, learning motivation, learning attribution style, learning adaptability and adaptability of examinations, self-esteem, attention and emotion or behavior problems. From these aspects above, we construct the Personal Learning Evaluation Scale for Middle School Students. After testing and through some psychometric methods we analyze and improve the scale, meanwhile we build structural model of the scale.According to "compile - testing - data analysis - modify and compile part of scale - re-testing - analyze once more" process, the scale after modify includes 9 sub-scales, 42 sub-factors, 496 items in total. And the reliability and validity all met the requirements of psychometric. In respect of reliability, the scale's Cronbach a coefficient reached to 0.940, 9 sub-scales' coefficients are all above 0.68, and 6 of them are higher than 0.80. As to the coefficients of 42 sub-factors, 28 of them are above 0.65, and only 3 factors' coefficients are under 0.50.Based on the analysis, we build the initial theoretic structural model - Ma, in which the 9 sub-scales are pair-wise correlation. Analyzed Ma and discovered that the Ma is acceptable basically, but still needs to be modified.In the process of modifying structural model, we had built 6 theoretic models in all. By comparing these models with fitting indexes, we chose the optimization model, Mf. In Mf, Three variables have attribute to a high-level factor F1, these variables are emotion or behavior problems, adaptability of examination and self-esteem. Meanwhile other two variables -- learning style and learning adaptability -- attribute to another high-level factor F2. The model Mf makes the personal learning evaluation scale's structure much simple.