Abstract

The objective of this study is to adapt and validate the School Engagement Questionnaire initially developed and validated in Chile with adolescents attending schools in Colombia, Uruguay, Spain and Peru. To ensure cultural and linguistic equivalence in each country, the items were reviewed by seven education experts and later by thirty adolescents with characteristics similar to those of the target population. The questionnaires were applied to 1,578 students in the four countries, through a computer platform with different versions for each of them. The psychometric properties of the versions for each country were adequate, thus, the analyses of exploratory structural equation models showed that in all the countries the original structure of three factors (affective, cognitive and behavioral engagement) was replicated, and that reliability was adequate in all cases.