CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF A SCALE FOR MEASURING LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS) AWARENESS

S.Sai Sandhiya; P. Sivakumar

Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF A SCALE FOR MEASURING LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS) AWARENESS

S. Sai Sandhiya, P. Sivakumar

Abstract :

The present study is an attempt to construct and validate a scale for assessing the awareness of Learning Management System. A pilot study among one hundred teachers including fifty male and fifty female teachers from various schools was conducted in Namakkal District to establish reliability and validity of the scale. The Mean, Median and S.D value of the scale are 139.38, 136.41, and 6.57 respectively. The distribution seems to be slightly positively skewed. Content validity was established by getting the opinions of the experts and scholars in the field of education. Percentile norms of the scale was also planned well to apprise the scores of awareness of Learning Management System. The tool contains thirty items including twenty five positive items and five negative items. The minimum score of the scale is thirty and maximum score is one hundred and fifty.