CASD-14: A Questionnaire on Civic Attitudes and Sustainable Development Values for Service-Learning in Early Adolescents

Yolanda Ruiz-Ordóñez, Amparo Salcedo-Mateu, Ángel Manuel Turbi-Pinazo, Carlos Novella-García and Carmen Moret-Tatay
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Yolanda Ruiz-Ordóñez: Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, Avenida de la Ilustración nº2, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
Amparo Salcedo-Mateu: Faculty of Education, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, C/Sagrado Corazón, 5. 46110 Godella, Valencia, Sapin
Ángel Manuel Turbi-Pinazo: Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, Avenida de la Ilustración nº2, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
Carlos Novella-García: Faculty of Education, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, C/Sagrado Corazón, 5. 46110 Godella, Valencia, Sapin
Carmen Moret-Tatay: Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, Avenida de la Ilustración nº2, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-11

Abstract: The service-learning disciplines can offer a unique opportunity for the civic development of sustainable values, as there is a large body of research that links them to values and civic attitudes. Given the need to develop instruments to measure the impact of service-learning methodology in early adolescence, a questionnaire was developed. For this purpose, a group of experts in the field of service-learning proposed a battery of items measuring three different constructs, named as follows: solidarity, compromise–responsibility and respect–dialog. The factor structure was examined, as well as its invariance across sex. The questionnaire confirmed good psychometric properties. Furthermore, the results have shown optimal goodness-of-fit indices. Sex was a variable to consider, as the analysis of invariance did not reach the scalar level. Lastly, the CASD-14 showed optimal test–retest reliability for both subsamples after eight months. The greatest contribution of this study is that it provides a direction for the application and sustainable development of the current scale, which might be considered a valuable assessment tool for early adolescent students’ service-learning. More research is needed with regard to sex-related differences in early adolescence.

Keywords: civic values; sustainable development values; service-learning; psychometrics; pre-adolescence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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