Instrument Adaptation Of Cognitive Test Anxiety Scale (Ctas-24) With Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) And Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) Methods

Abstract

Academic anxiety is a broad general construct that focuses on the preclinical anxiety experienced by learners in various educational contexts, namely the experience of negative affective responses in the presence of perceived academic stressors. There are 3 dimensions of academic anxiety, namely cognitive, emotional and physical. The Cognitive Test Anxienty Scale (CTAS-24) is the latest instrument to measure academic anxiety. An adaptation process is needed to fit the Indonesian context and culture. The purpose of this study is to determine the validation of CTAS-24 in the Indonesian version. The adaptation process was conducted by following the guidelines of the International Test Commission (ITC). Data were collected from 231 randomly selected university students in Indonesia. From the model evaluation analysis using GOF, the GFI value is 0.91 ≥ 0.90 (marginal fit), the RMSEA value is 0.034 < 0.05 (close fit), RMR value of 0.010 ≤ 0.05 (good fit), NFI value of 0.99 ≥ 0.90 (good fit) and AGFI value of 0.87 > 0.80 (marginal fit). These results mean that in the terrorist model, the model built can be declared fit, that 4 or 5 goodness of fit criteria are sufficient to assess the feasibility of a model. Therefore, it can be concluded that the structural model of academic anxiety is empirically proven because it has fulfilled five of the 8 goodness fit parameters.