Developing an online-testing attitude scale for university students

Abstract EN

Although researchers have developed a number of tools which measure students' attitudes toward using computers in general, a few of them, especially in the West, have developed scales to assess university students' attitudes toward online testing. However, no attempts have been made to develop such scales in the Arab world.

Therefore, the goal of this study was to develop a valid and reliable online testing attitude scale for university Arab students. In order to create the items of the scale, the researcher collected his data from the following sources : Reviewing previous literature about students' attitudes toward computer, eliciting information from students about their beliefs, attitudes, and feelings toward using computers in testing, and adapting and creating new items.

The original scale consisted of 34 items a long affective, cognitive and behavioral domains.

After subjecting the scale to a confirmatory factor analysis, three items were deleted because they met the criterion of item deletion (below 0.25).

The final scale was made up of 31 items, and it was administered to 638 male and female undergraduate students at Yarmouk University / Jordan.

The results of this study supported the validity and reliability of this instrument.

The scale had high degree of validity which was demonstrated by content validity, construct validity, internal validity and discriminating power.

Alpha coefficients of 0.87, 085, and 0.79 were good indicators of the reliability of the three dimensions.

A coefficient of 0.78 showed a test-retest reliability.