Development and validation of a measurement scale to assess nursing students’ readiness for the flipped classroom in Sri Lanka

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale to measure nursing students’ readiness for the flipped classroom in Sri Lanka. A literature review provided the theoretical framework for developing the Nursing Students’ Readiness for Flipped Classroom (NSR-FC) questionnaire. Five experts participated in validity testing of the scale, and 265 undergraduate nursing students (in the 1st and 2nd academic years) from 3 state universities (Colombo University [n=141], University of Peradeniya [n=73], and Eastern University, Sri Lanka [n=51]) in Sri Lanka participated in exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Responses from 90 different undergraduate nursing students (3rd and 4th academic years) (University of Peradeniya [n=42] and Eastern University, Sri Lanka [n=48]) were employed for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).