The Development and Validation of the Zero Cost Textbook Satisfaction Scale (ZSS)

Alex Redcay; Amber Nicole Pfannenstiel; Daniel Albert

doi:10.55982/openpraxis.14.4.487

The Development and Validation of the Zero Cost Textbook Satisfaction Scale (ZSS)

Open Praxis

Volume 14 (2022): Issue 4

By: Alex Redcay , Amber Nicole Pfannenstiel and Daniel Albert

Open Access

|Dec 2022

Abstract

This paper aimed to develop and validate the Zero Textbook Satisfaction Scale (ZSS), a measurement tool to assess student satisfaction with Zero Textbook Costs (ZTC) resources. The validated ZSS is available via a CC BY-NC-ND license and is a valuable tool for faculty and institutions seeking to understand student perceptions of their OER/ZTC adoptions and for broad scale OER/ZTC adoption initiatives seeking to understand student experiences with materials across a wide variety of courses. The ZSS was administered, revised, and validated following DeVellis (2017) 8 steps for validating measurement tools. The secondary data was analyzed using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), which resulted in 11 items on 1 factor and a Cronbach’s alpha, which showed excellent internal consistency (α = .94). The ZSS validated tool is designed to be used by faculty who would like to assess student satisfaction with the open source textbooks, and compare data to other sites of adoption.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.14.4.487 | Journal eISSN: 2304-070X

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Language: English

Page range: 291 - 299

Submitted on: Mar 16, 2022

Accepted on: Dec 20, 2022

Published on: Dec 31, 2022

Published by: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Open Educational Resources (OER),

Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC),

validated measurement tool

© 2022 Alex Redcay, Amber Nicole Pfannenstiel, Daniel Albert, published by International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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