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 a and -item-total correlation The nine-item 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