A scale to analyse the perception of students and teachers towards online classes

Abstract

An attempt is made in the present study to develop and standardize a scale to analyze the perception of students and teachers towards online classes. The developed perception scale with 15 statements was found to be highly reliable and valid. The developed perception scale was administered to 34 students and 32 teachers of Keladi Shivappa Nayaka University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences Shivamogga of Karnataka state during February 2024. The results revealed that a larger proportion of students (38.24%) had better perception towards online classes, while 35.29 and 26.47 percent of the students had good and poor perception towards online classes, respectively. On the contrary, as high as 37.49 percent of the teachers had good perception on online classes, whereas 34.38 and 28.13 percent of teachers had better and poor perception towards online classes, respectively. There existed a non-significant difference in mean perception score between students and teachers towards online classes.