Cross-cohort validation of the quiz-related MASE (MASE-Q)

Establish whether the quiz-related Measure of Assessment Self-Efficacy (MASE-Q) demonstrates psychometric equivalence across different cohorts of students by collecting MASE-Q data from multiple cohorts of the same course and performing confirmatory factor analysis with multi-group measurement invariance testing (configural, metric, scalar, and residual) to validate the scale across cohorts.

Background

The MASE comprises two context-specific scales: MASE-Q for low-stakes online quizzes and MASE-E for high-stakes final exams. In Study 2, both scales were shown to be invariant over time within a single cohort. Study 3 then evaluated cross-cohort invariance, but only for the exam-related scale (MASE-E), because the data collection included MASE-E responses only.

Consequently, cross-cohort validation of the quiz-related scale (MASE-Q) was not conducted in Study 3, leaving the generalizability of MASE-Q across different cohorts an explicitly acknowledged gap to be addressed in future research.