Validating the Turkish Version of Self-Directed Online Learning Scale: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Inquiry (Poster 23)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Ten
  In Poster Session: Online Teaching and Learning SIG Poster Session

Abstract

The study developed and validated the Turkish version of the Self-Directed Online Learning Scale (SDOLS-T) for assessing students’ perceptions of their self-directed learning ability in an online environment. To that end, the study used one dataset collected using SDOLS-T which was part of a parent study. From multiple confirmatory factor analyses factoring into consideration the rating scale structure of the SDOLS-T data in two stages, evidence showed the correlated, two-factor structure, originally proposed for SDOLS, was the best-fit model for SDOLS-T and that the model achieved measurement invariance for SDOLS-T across the groups by gender and network connection. In the end, the findings support SDOLS-T for use in educational practice and policy/decision-making in online teaching and learning in Turkey.

Authors

• Hongwei Yang, University of West Florida
  Presenting Author

• Müslim ALANOĞLU
  Presenting Author

• Songül KARABATAK
  Presenting Author

• Jian Su, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
  Presenting Author