The Psychometric Properties of the Cognitive Load Inventory among Al-Azhar High School Students with Physics Learning Disabilities

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1 قسم علم النفس التعليمي، کلية التربية، جامعة الأزهر بالقاهرة.

2 Educational Psychology Department, Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University.

Abstract

 The current study aimed at developing a cognitive load inventory among Al-Azhar high school students with physics learning disabilities as well as testing its psychometric properties (validity - reliability). To achieve the aforementioned objective, forty three students with physics learning disabilities from the 2nd scientific high school grade were recruited. The researcher utilized the descriptive method. Utilizing the appropriate statistical methods in analyzing the psychometric properties of the prepared inventory, it has been applicable to similar groups to whom its psychometric properties were analyzed with high level of confidence. The arbitrators’ agreement on the inventory items ranged between (90.9% - 100%), being a high level of agreement and indicating the inventory validity. The correlation coefficients between the students’ scores on the cognitive load inventory and their scores on the criterion inventory were statistically significant (a= 0.01), indicating the inventory validity, as well. The correlation coefficients between the item and the dimension to which it belonged were statistically significant (a= 0.01). The correlation coefficients between the dimension and inventory total score were also statistically significant (a= 0.01), indicating a high level of internal consistency of the inventory. The reliability coefficients of the three dimensions of the inventory as well as its total score were (0.735 - 0.784 - 0.720 - 0.859), respectively. They represented high reliability coefficients which indicated the inventory had high reliability level.

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