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

本研究的目的是将在线学生连接性调查(OSCS；Boliger&Inan，2012，《开放与分布式学习研究的国际评论》)翻译并改编到日本人群中，然后为翻译产生的分数的有效性提供心理测量学证据。因此，这项研究支持在日本背景下关于这一工具的循证测量，从而帮助在线学习领域未来的研究人员和实践者需要依赖来自日本参与者的心理测量学有效数据。到颁奖第一年结束时，就上述目的而言，已经实现了以下目标：1)根据国际考试委员会(2000,2001)的指导方针对该工具进行了正向和反向翻译；2)使用翻译收集了数据(N=239)；并在2023年3月9日在日本Tosashimzu举行的第二届国际TEFL Prxis会议上共同提交了初步结果(由该奖项的首席研究员和我们小组的另一名研究人员/成员)。

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.