The Reliability of the College and University Classroom Environment Inventory: Some Australian Data

Abstract

This paper describes the reliability of the College and University Classroom Environment Inventory which is designed to gather students' perceptions of the psychosocial characteristics of their learning environments. It consists of 7 scales: Personalization, Involvement, Student Cohesiveness, Satisfaction, Task Orientation, Innovation, and Individualization and has both an Actual and a Preferred Form. 130 teacher-education students from a variety of content area backgrounds completed the inventory prior to (preferred) and at the end of (actual) a semester unit in Educational Psychology. The Cronbach alpha measure of reliability using the student as the unit of analysis confirms the already reported internal consistencies of the 7 scales. Although some values are relatively low, this can be explained in terms of the influence on Cronbach alpha of low variance.