A study of factor structure, validity, reliability and normalization of learning organization dimension scale at the university

Subject Areas : Educational Psychology

Mohammad Ali Nadi ¹ ( استادیار دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد خوراسگان، اصفهان، ایران. )
Ilnaz Sajjadian ² ( دانشجوی دکترای روانشناسی دانشگاه اصفهان، عضو هیئت علمی گروه روانشناسی‌بالینی دانشگاه‌آزاداسلامی‌علوم‌و‌تحقیقات‌اصفهان )

Received: 2016-04-13 Accepted : 2016-04-13 Published : 2011-02-20

Keywords: Learning Organization, Organizational Learning, individual learning, group learning,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric characteristics and normalization of learning organization dimensions scale. Out of the research population, 730 people (including 570 students and 160 faculty members). From Governmental universities in Isfahan was chosen as the sample size. The sampling method was random multistage cluster. The questionnaire was made of learning organization, knowledge management and demographic scale. The results of factor analysis showed that more than 49.37% variance learning organization score was expressed by the scale. Based on the correlation among questions and factors, and after nine times varimax rotation three factors were extracted and named. Further more, learning organization concurrent validity and correlation between the scale and its subscales and among the subscales themselves, were from 0.56 to 0.85, three reliabilities (test retest 0.90, internal uniformity 0.96) were reported. According to the above results, it was concluded that LOD scale have a good psychometric characteristics for Iranian university population, and it can be used as a valid measure in higher education research.

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