This study presents and discusses the construction of an instrument to evaluate study habits. The digitalized questionnaire entitled Study Habits Questionnaire directed to college students, composed of 97 items with a Likert scale, was applied to 781 undergraduate students enrolled in 10 courses from a private college in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil to evaluate the reliability of psychometric parameters (internal consistency) and validity (factorial analysis). The results indicated nine specific factors with eigenvalue above 1.5. The internal consistency of the factors presented Cronbach’s Alpha between 0.603 and 0.934. The conclusion is that the questionnaire presents satisfactory psychometric parameters and is a useful instrument to investigate study habits in undergraduate students with characteristics similar to this study’s sample.
study habits; questionnaire; psychometrics; test validity
