Psychometric Properties of ‘Attitude towards e-Learning Scale’ among Nursing Students

As nursing schools embrace e-learning during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis, academic nursing institutions must first assess the attitude or perception of students to achieve successful transition and transformation to e-learning.However, there is limited information about the psychometric properties that measure the attitudes towards e-learning among nursing students in the Philippines.The objective of the study is to determine the validity and reliability of the attitudes towards e-learning scale Filipino nursing students.This descriptive cross-sectional study included 111 Filipino nursing students in selected public and private universities were selected through purposive sampling.The attitude toward e-learning scale was assessed for construct validity through exploratory factor analysis using varimax rotation and internal consistency reliability using Cronbach's á and -item-total correlation.The nineitem attitude towards e-learning scale was loaded on one component with factor loadings ranging from -0.907 to 0.893, explaining 61.92 percent of the total variance.The KMO test revealed a value of 0.900, while Bartlett's test was 644.380 (df =55, p=0.000).The corrected item-total correlation of each item varied in between 0.409 to 0.854, and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the 9-item scale was 0.917.The 9-item instrument was valid and reliable in assessing the attitude towards e-learning among nursing students.Further studies should be done in order to test it among varied health science students.