From these statements the authors then created 10 statements for each factor to produce high internal consistency and ensure content validity. While the survey method gave an understanding on what factors were present most frequently and to whom, it leaves out an external factors that may be reasons why people attend college.
The authors decided to conduct this study in order to “reveal strong social motivators for going to college.” Much of this study was intended to “accurately measure the motivations of traditional college students’ decision to continue their education into college,” (Corts, Stoners; 776). The point of this research is to allow for a measure that can explore a variety of issues related to choice of colleges, retention/attrition tendencies, social and emotional adjustment…and to facilitate research…among schools that compete for incoming students, among majors and other groups… (Corts, Stoners;