Validity Testing of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Survey as a Tool for Student Evaluation of Teaching and Learning in a Fully Online Philippine University

Abstract

A Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) is essential in any system of education. Not only does it provide vital information and feedback to enhance student learning outcomes, and thus, functioning as quality control and tool for teaching improvement (Holi Ali & Al Ajmi, 2013; Wright & Jenkins-Guarnieri, 2012), but it also serves as a platform for sharing of students’ experiences in their courses (Golding & Adam, 2016) while providing empirical evidence for faculty tenure and promotion. This study examined the validity of the Community of Inquiry (COI) Survey as a SET in a fully online university in the Philippines. A questionnaire incorporating the COI Survey was pilot tested among all students in the university who were enrolled in the first term of AY 2018-2019. The pilot testing and validation methods resulted in a four-factor, 31-item COI Survey that has mediocre to acceptable goodness of fit.