2022 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Psychometric evidence for an adaptation of the Online Student Connectedness Survey (OSCS) into the Japanese language and population
| Project/Area Number |
22K00715
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| Research Institution | Kumamoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
Isemonger Ian 熊本大学, 大学院人文社会科学研究部(文), 教授 (40350384)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
平野 順也 熊本大学, 大学院人文社会科学研究部(文), 教授 (40432992)
西川 里織 熊本大学, 大学院人文社会科学研究部(文), 准教授 (40599213)
LINGLEY DARREN 高知大学, 教育研究部人文社会科学系人文社会科学部門, 教授 (50335915)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Keywords | Psychometrics / OSCS / validity / CFA / structural validity |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The purpose of this research is to translate and adapt the Online Student Connectedness Survey (OSCS; Bolliger & Inan, 2012, The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) into the Japanese population, and then provide psychometric evidence for the validity of the scores which the translation generates. This research, therefore, supports evidence-based measurement with respect to this instrument in the Japan context, and thereby assists future researchers and practitioners in the field of online learning who need to rely on psychometrically valid data from Japanese participants. By the end of the first year of the award, and in terms of the above-stated purpose, the following has been achieved: 1) the instrument has been forward- and back- translated following the guidelines of the International Test Commission (2000, 2001); 2) data has been collected using the translation (N = 239); and preliminary results have been co-presented (by the lead researcher for this grant award and one other researcher/member of our group) at the 2nd International TEFL Praxis Conference held in Tosashimzu (Japan) on March 9, 2023.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The current status of the project is regarded as having proceeded more smoothly than expected because key milestones (for this type of study) have now been achieved. The instrument is translated and the primary data has been gathered. Preliminary analysis of this data has also already been undertaken (but further analysis will, of course, follow).
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
For the year to come (second year), there are two primary goals. One is to author a paper for publication in a refereed journal based on this data, and the other is to present the research at another conference in Japan to make practitioners and researchers more aware of what we are doing. Further fine-grained analysis of the data will also be undertaken in the process of achieving these two goals.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Last year, I, and my colleagues, did not physically travel to a conference, as expected, because a conference was available by Zoom, and so expected costs for this did not occur. Furthermore, while some preliminary analysis was conducted last year using an older version of SPSS, the latest version (as well as the advanced statistics component [which I do not have]) is now needed, as well as the latest version of AMOS.
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Research Products
(1 results)
