The Development And Validation Of The Online Learning Climate Scale (Olcs)

Keywords

classroom climate; distance education; instructional communication; online climate scale; Online learning

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.

Publication Date

7-2-2016

Publication Title

Communication Education

Volume

65

Issue

3

Number of Pages

307-321

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2015.1101778

Socpus ID

84946887902 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84946887902

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