Psychometric evidence for an adaptation of the Online Student Connectedness Survey (OSCS) into the Japanese language and population

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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.