Abstract

• The Student Buoyancy Inventory is a self-report survey instrument that measures the students' ability of navigating the academic challenges, setbacks and pressures of their everyday school life. The original scale to measure the academic buoyancy of the students had been developed by Martin and Marsh (2006) and it has 4 items only. Based on the Martin and Marsh (2010) theoretical framework, Comerford (2017) developed the revised scale. It contains 5 factors and 39 items according to the results of the exploratory factor analysis. The objective of the study is to validate the factor structure of the student buoyancy inventory in a sample of education degree college student teachers by using confirmatory factor analysis. The scale has five-factors involving 39-items with 4-point Likert scale. Data from 400 student teachers from the Education Degree Colleges were subjected to examine the psychometric properties of the scale. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis on the re-specified 30- items scale showed that the model fits with the five factors structure of the student buoyancy inventory (RMSEA = 0.50, TLI = 0.87, CFI = 0.90, p = 0.00). Besides, the convergent and discriminant validity and internal consistency supports the accuracy of the 30-items student academic buoyancy inventory to use in Myanmar Education Degree College Student Teachers.