Exploring the impacts of learning modality changes: Validation of the learning modality change community of inquiry and self-efficacy scales.

ABSTRACT: The rapid learning environment transition initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic impacted students' perception of, comfort with, and self-efficacy in the online learning environment. Garrison's Community of Inquiry framework provides a lens for examining students' online learning experiences through three interdependent elements: social presence, cognitive presence, and teaching presence. Researchers in this study developed and validated the Learning Modality Change Community of Inquiry and Self-Efficacy scales to measure health professions students' self-efficacy with online learning, while exploring how cognitive, social, and teaching presence is experienced by students who transition from one learning environment to another. The two scales demonstrate strong validity and reliability evidenc

SUBMITTER: Jia Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9362111 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature