the purpose of this study was to develop and field-test the Classroom Community Scale and to determine its validity and reliability for use with university students taking courses at a distance via the Internet. The 20-item Classroom Community Scale measures sense of community in a learning environment. Data were collected from 375 students enrolled in 28 different courses, offered for graduate credit via the Blackboard e-learning system by a private university. It was concluded that the Classroom Community Scale is a valid and reliable measure of classroom community and that this instrument yields two interpretable factors, connectedness and learning.
Development of an instrument to measure classroom community. Internet High Educ - ResearchGate. Available from: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/222681290_Development_of_an_instrument_to_measure_classroom_community._Internet_High_Educ [accessed Oct 16, 2015].