Internal determinants of university student employability. Construction and validation of scales

[EN] One of the challenges faced by European universities today is to ensure that their graduates find employment in line with their attributes. Graduate employability depends, among other factors, on many internal determinants in individuals. However, there is no consensus on how to measure them, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Caballero, Gloria, Álvarez, Paula, López-Miguens, Mª Jesús
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/104629
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/104629
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Higher Education
Learning
Educational systems
Teaching
Employability
Internal determinants
University
Scales
Psychometric properties
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Sumario:[EN] One of the challenges faced by European universities today is to ensure that their graduates find employment in line with their attributes. Graduate employability depends, among other factors, on many internal determinants in individuals. However, there is no consensus on how to measure them, and the scales developed to date have not been properly validated. The purpose of this paper is to construct and validate, at confirmatory level, a set of instruments for measuring the internal determinants of graduate employability. The results, based on a sample of 816 students, show the structure of the scales resulting from checking content validity, dimensionality, reliability, and convergent, discriminant and nomological validity.