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通性调查（OSCS; Bolliger & Inan，2012年，开放和分布式学习研究国际评论）翻译并改编为日本人口，然后为翻译产生的分数的有效性提供心理测量证据。因此，这项研究，支持以证据为基础的测量与此工具在日本的背景下，从而帮助未来的研究人员和从业人员在该领域的在线学习谁需要依靠日本参与者的心理测量有效的数据。到颁奖的第一年结束时，就上述目的而言，已经实现了以下目标：1）根据国际测试委员会的指导方针，对仪器进行了正向和反向翻译（2000，2001）; 2）使用翻译收集数据（N = 239）;初步结果已于2023年3月9日在Tosashimzu（日本）举行的第二届国际TEFL实践会议上共同提交（由该基金会的首席研究员和我们小组的另一位研究员/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.