The Validity, Reliability, and Utility of a Rubric for Evaluating Online Course Quality: An Empirical Study

• In Event: DDL - Evaluating Quality

Short Description

The purpose of the study is to investigate the reliability, validity, and utility of a rubric designed to evaluate online course quality. We used a rubric (based on a widely used rubric in higher education) and the quality scores from 199 online courses offered a mid-sized public university in the Western U.S. Inter-item reliability, confirmatory factor, and regression analyses showed that many rubric items were unreliable and invalid. We conclude with suggestions for improving the rubric.

Authors

• Ji Eun Lee, Utah State University

• Mimi Recker, Utah State University