
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
REVIEW: Measurement in Distance Education
Reviewed By Mehmet KOKOC |
ABSTRACT
The growing interest in distance education technologies bring together
a critical question on whether online and distance learning is as
effective as face-to-face learning. This skepticism requires employing
best approaches and robust instruments to evaluate online and distance
education (Lowenthal & Davidson-Shivers, 2019). Researchers and
instructional designers examine learning process in distance education
for building better online learning experiences. To ensure the quality
of distance education, institutions basically emphasis on well-designed
course, effective technologies, online instructors with high competence,
and effective learning outcomes. What is important at this point
is to evaluate efficacy of distance education using robust and valid
instruments, scales and measurements. In this respect, the book titled
Measurements in distance education: A Compendium of instruments, scales,
and measures for evaluating online learning by Catalano (2018) has set
out to provide a large manual including more than fifty instruments,
scales and questionnaire with useful description on their psychometric
properties.
KEYWORDS: Distance Education