KEYNOTE SPEECH: COMPARING MSLQ AND OSLQ AS PREDICTORS OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE FOR ONLINE STUDENTS

Back to Page Authors: Li Cao, John Nietfeld

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Keywords: Online learning, Self-regulation, Academinc performance, Higher education

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Abstract: Given the increasing prevalence of online learning environments, it is essential to determine high-quality measurement indices that are sensitive to the online context itself and that predict academic performance. This study compared the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) and the Online Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (OSLQ) as instruments to predict test scores, course grades, and overall GPAs of online students. 388 undergraduate students enrolled in different sections of a 100% online class of educational psychology in a comprehensive university in the southeastern USA. Our results show that the OSLQ predicted online students’ academic performance in all three measures; and that significant association existed among the online SRL strategies, i.e., goal setting and environmental structuring, and test score, course grade, and GPA.

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