Construction and validation of an instrument to explore prospects and challenges of Campus Management System

Abstract

Abstract

The work reported here is an effort to construct and validate an instrument to explore the prospects and challenges of campus management system (CMS) of Allama Iqbal Open University. This work is likely to be a predictor of students' attachment to CMS and is expected to help the AIOU Administration to improve the CMS in future. A questionnaire was constructed by keeping in view the construct. First part of questionnaire was about demographic information of respondents. e.g. name, age, gender, area, education, and work experience. The second part comprised total eight subscales. Out of eight subscales, first five subscales (guidance on CMS for new admission, guidance on CMS for courses, guidance on CMS for exams, technological advancement benefits, clarity, and helpfulness in academics) were related to the prospects of CMS. While other three subscales; current CMS interface challenges, technical challenges of CMS, challenges in admission process, were related to the challenges of CMS faced by learners. After construction, the instrument was validated by the eleven experts in the field of education and psychology. Some statements were amended in the light of their useful suggestions. Then the final prototype of data collection was refined to check Content Validity Index. The CVI was calculated and that was 0.94. The validated instrument was then applied on a group of 60 scholars to calculate the reliability of the instrument by using Cronbach’s Alpha, which was 0.87.

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