Construction, validation and reliability of a scale to measure the retention of college students

Abstract

The aim of this study is the construction, validation and reliability of a scale to measure the number of students who drop out from their college studies.
This is an instrumental study with a non-probabilistic sampling; the sample consisted of 361 college students who had dropped out one or more times.
The overall average age is 28.35 years.
The sample included 181 women (50.1 %) and 180 men (49.9 %).
The technique used was the survey.
The instruments used were the College Retention Scale and the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire. Results demonstrated that the test showed adequate indices of validity in terms of content and construct; the criteria was divergent and reliable for the measurement of the retention of university students.