Abstract:
A matter of great interest to researchers in the field of education today is
how to improve students' well-being, engagement, or learning
achievement in tertiary level contexts. Some scholars suggest to start
from the assessment of students' satisfaction upon their basic
psychological needs. However, recently, the number of validated tools to
assess the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs is still rare. This
study measured the validity and reliability of an adapted basic
psychological needs theory used in foreign language learning. There were
two developed questionnaires to identify basic psychological needs which
covers a different number of indicators. The study presented empirical
evidence of validity and reliability using the Rasch Model. This pilot study
was conducted in two different universities and cities, Indonesia. There
were 34 students as a participant in this study. Data were analyzed using
WINSTEPS version 3.69.1.11. Results show that the instrument that can
measure BPN in the context of English courses at the tertiary level is
feasible to use in measuring BPN. The researchers only got one invalid
item from the "relatedness" indicator.
Keywords: Basic Psychological Needs; Self-determination; Rasch Measurement Model
