Validity and Reliability of Questionnaire of Parents Role in Online Learning and the Development of Children’s Social–Emotional

Abstract

Parents are important role in nurturing children’s social-emotional development. In the context of education, parents are the first teachers for children, who give examples to children shaping their attitudes and behaviors in accordance with the norms prevailing in society. This survey method of this research aims to investigate the validity and reliability of the instruments of the role of parents in online learning and social-emotional development of children. This questionnaire is modified from the previous study. This questionnaire has been circulated to two experts in early childhood education area and randomly selected 50 parents who have children aged 5 – 7 years. The data is analyzed using the SPSS 22 program. The result of validity analysis for questionnaire of the role parents in online learning and children’s social-emotional development are 0.91 and 0.94 respectively. Beside the expert score result are 0.83 and 0.85 respectively. Reliability analysis finds the value of the Cronbach Alpha coefficient for the parents’ role questionnaire in online learning is 0.868 and for the children’s social-emotional development questionnaire is 0.860. This finding showed that these two questionnaires can be used to determine the stage of parental role and the stage of development of the children social-emotional.  Overall the result of the study might be used for a similar future study.