Development of the Online Learner Anxiety Scale

• In Event: Social and Emotional Work in Online Learning

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to explore the factors associated with online learning anxiety by carefully designing, developing, and providing preliminary validity and reliability evidence of a scale to measure undergraduate students’ online learning anxiety. We created a conceptual framework to organize the literature surrounding online learning anxiety and used this framework to develop an initial item pool of 30-items. The researchers recruited N = 297 undergraduate student participants from four public universities in the southeastern United States from whom we collected and analyzed data for descriptive statistics, internal consistency reliability, exploratory factor analysis, and correlational analysis.

Authors

• Muhammad Rehman, University of Florida

• Albert Dieter Ritzhaupt, University of Florida

• Matthew L. Wilson, Kennesaw State University

• Krista Ruggles, Utah Valley University