Psychometric properties of the Online Self-Regulated Learning Questionnaire

The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the online self-regulated learning questionnaire (Lau, 2021) in students of Tehran universities. The Chinese version of the self-regulated online learning questionnaire (COSRQ) consists of seven subscales: goal setting, time management, environmental structuring, effort regulation, cognitive/ monitoring strategies, help seeking, and self-evaluation. Participants in this study were 453 students of different stages of public universities who were selected by random sampling. Participants responded to questionnaires on self-regulated online learning questionnaire (COSRQ), academic engagement (RAEQ), motivated strategies for learning questionnaire (MSLQ), and the academic procrastination scale (PASS), provided online. The psychometric adequacy of the questionnaire was assessed in several steps including item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, convergent validity, divergent validity and reliability coefficient. The results of item analysis showed that all items of the questionnaire are sufficient in terms of descriptive features. Exploratory factor analysis by identifying 5 items that were in the unrelated factor led to the identification of six factors. Confirmatory factor analysis also confirmed this six-factor structure. The results showed that this questionnaire has convergent and divergent validity and good reliability.