Investigating the Psychometric Indices of the Academic Factors Scale Affecting the Research Experience in Graduate Students of Chamran University of Ahwaz

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the psychometric Indices of the scale of academic factors affecting the research experience in graduate students of Chamran University of Ahwaz. The statistical population of this study included all graduate students of Shahid Chamran University in Ahwaz in the academic year 1365-96, whose number was 1130. From this, 325 people were selected as a research sample by stratified random sampling method. The scale used in the study was the Tarban and Logue scale (2012), which has 32 materials and includes five sub-scales of research thinking, academic thinking, teacher support, peer support and research methods. The Reliability of the scale was calculated using Cronbach's alpha and Test retest That's respectively in satisfactory coefficients of 0.85 and 0.82, Was obtained. To verify the validity of the scale, the confirmatory factor analysis method was used that the fitting indices of the model indicated a suitable fit for the model and therefore the validity of the scale, the results of t-test showed that there is no significant difference between male and female students regarding the overall score of academic factors affecting research experience.