ADAPTATION OF THE CLASSROOM COMMUNITY INDEX: THE VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY STUDY

作者：Ozturk Ebru^*

来源：Hacettepe Universitesi Egitim Fakultesi Dergisi-Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2009, (36): 193-202.

• online learning community
• sense of community

The purpose of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of The The Classroom Community Index developed by Rovai (2002a) in a group of Turkish college students. The original questionnaire was in English and had two factors, 20 items. First of all, the original questionnaire was translated into Turkish, and obtained experts' critics in terms of language, content, measurement and evaluation etc. Afterwards, both the English and Turkish forms were administered to a group of METU students (n=29) in a period of two week to determine the equivalency of these two forms. Finally, the Turkish version was administered group of university students (n=185) who have experienced online learning. Like the original form, the results of factor analysis indicated that the Turkish version had two factors and consisted of 13 items. The Cronbach Alpha internal consistency coefficient was also computed as .85.

• 出版日期2009