Measuring Perceived Employability among Higher Education Students: A Scale Development Study in Afghanistan

Mohammad Idris Noori, Feza Tabassum Azmi
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In higher education, students’ perceived employability (SPE) significantly attracted authors’ attention over the last decades. Several scholars have validated scales to measure the concept. Yet an inclusive model comprising multiple internal and external factors was found to be absent in the extant literature. This study thus provides an updated multi-indicator measurement model to assist in assessing SPE and its chief components in Afghanistan. Data were collected from 755 students from six registered universities. The scale’s reliability and validity was established using the AMOS’s confirmatory factor analysis capability. Using the structural equation model (SEM)-based method, the process adopted rigorous steps to assess content validity, data symmetry, unidimensionality, construct reliability, convergent and discriminant validity, nomological validity, and model fit indices. Model validation was confirmed after the goodness-of-fit patterns and its associated validity and reliability scores had been acceptably achieved. The study justified the validation of the multi-indicator model with nine main constructs in the Afghanistan context. Additional evidence for assessing SPE beyond the validation can be provided by assessing the effects of these validated sets of components on the SPE using the complete SEM.
衡量高等教育学生的感知就业能力:阿富汗的规模发展研究
在高等教育中,学生的感知就业能力(SPE)在过去的几十年里引起了作者的极大关注。一些学者已经验证了测量这一概念的量表。然而,在现有文献中发现缺乏包含多个内部和外部因素的包容性模型。因此,这项研究提供了一个更新的多指标测量模型,以协助评估阿富汗的SPE及其主要组成部分。数据来自6所注册大学的755名学生。采用AMOS的验证性因子分析能力来确定量表的信度和效度。该过程采用基于结构方程模型(SEM)的方法,采用严格的步骤评估内容效度、数据对称性、单维性、结构信度、收敛和判别效度、规律效度和模型拟合等指标。在拟合优度模式及其相关的效度和信度得分达到可接受的水平后,确认模型验证。该研究证明了多指标模型在阿富汗背景下的九个主要结构的有效性。通过使用完整的SEM来评估这些经过验证的组件对SPE的影响,可以提供验证之外评估SPE的其他证据。
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