The development of a brief measure of learner autonomy in university students
By A. Macaskill, Elizabeth Taylor. 2010
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A great deal of attention is paid to the requirement for university students to become autonomous learners. A review of the literature revealed a lack of relatively short psychometrically sound measures of autonomous learning despite its purported importance. This study aimed to develop a brief, psychometrically sound, measure of autonomous learning to facilitate empirical research in this area. Items for the scale were selected from reviewing the literature, and face validity was confirmed by experienced academics. In the first study, first‐year psychology students (n = 214) completed the measure. Principal components analysis produced a 12‐item measure with two subscales that appeared to be psychometrically sound. The factor structure was reproduced with a more diverse group of undergraduates (n =172) in a second study. The internal reliability and the concurrent validity of the scale were both found to be satisfactory, suggesting that this measure may prove useful to educational researchers.
Subfields: Education, Social Psychology
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- Promotion of learner autonomy within the framework of a flipped EFL instructional model: perception and perspectives (2019, background): “LA was defined by Macaskill and Taylor (2010) as learners taking responsibility for their own learning, being motivated to learn, gaining pleasure from their learning, managing their time well, planning effectively and displaying perseverance when encountering difficulties.”
- THE IMPACT OF A FLIPPED CLASSROOM MODEL OF LEARNING ON A LARGE UNDERGRADUATE STATISTICS CLASS (2018, background): “A preliminary search of the literature, however, revealed that there is no single consensual definition of what is meant by “autonomous learning” and its related constructs of “independent learning” and “selfdirected learning” (Macaskill & Taylor, 2010).”
- Developing autonomous learning in first year university students using perspectives from positive psychology (2013, unknown): “Finally autonomous learning was measured using a recently developed scale (Macaskill and Taylor 2010).”