Regueiro Fernández, BibianaRodríguez Fernández, José EugenioCrespo Comesaña, JuliaPino Juste, Margarita Rosa2021-06-042021-06-042021Regueiro B, Rodríguez-Fernández JE, Crespo J and Pino-Juste MR (2021) Design and Validation of a Questionnaire for University Students’ Generic Competencies (COMGAU). Front. Educ. 6:606216. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2021.606216http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26392University, as a social institution as defined in the European Higher Education Area, must be a benchmark in the preparation for beginning employment and education for the exercise of active citizenship. Therefore its functions include the development of knowledge and skills needed for appropriate personal performance in various social and professional arenas. This education is complex and requires bringing together specific and generic (or transversal) competencies. The fundamental aim of this study is to present the construction and validation of a questionnaire for evaluating generic competencies acquired via practical service-learning education and the potential employability of university students. Empirical analysis of the reliability and validity of the instrument was performed with a sample of 564 university students (67.2% women), aged between 18 and 59 years old, although with the majority between 18 and 22 (M = 20.96). Following exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, as well as analysis of the items and the internal consistency of the scale, the results allow us to conclude that the internal consistency and validity of the Questionnaire on University Students’ Generic Competencies are satisfactory. The proposed measurement model incorporates various prior theoretical contributions, and offers a complementary scale that may contribute to advancing research into service-learning and employabilityengCopyright © 2021 Regueiro, Rodríguez-Fernández, Crespo and Pino-Juste. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these termsAtribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Generic competenciesEmployabilityUniversity studentsHigher educationLearning-serviceCOMGAUjournal article10.3389/feduc.2021.6062162504-284Xopen access