The development and validation of the online learning climate scale (OLCS)
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- 30 September 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communication Education
- Vol. 65 (3) , 307-321
Abstract
With the increasing popularity of online learning in higher education comes a need to examine students’ perceptions about classroom climate in these environments. This two-part study proposes the online learning climate scale (OLCS) for doing so. Informed by both instructional communication and education, the scale consists of several variables related to teacher role(s) and behaviors, student characteristics, and course-specific structural issues to explain how students perceive climate within a computer-mediated classroom. Ultimately, this two-part study (a) constructed the OLCS and (b) established its factor structure and convergent validity.Keywords
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