Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, Vol 12(1), Mar 2026, 30-42; doi:10.1037/stl0000400
Teaching courses with an online component have become much more common following the COVID-19 pandemic. However, teaching evaluation instruments specific to online courses remain rare. The purpose of this study was to adapt an existing measure—the Teacher Behavior Checklist—for evaluating online courses. Using a broad, inclusive sampling method, 19 faculty teaching 32 courses were evaluated by 585 students using the new measure termed the Teacher Behavior Checklist Online gathered in the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters. Three competing structural models failed to achieve good fit within confirmatory factor analysis, even after accounting for possible modifications. However, internal consistency of the Teacher Behavior Checklist Online was acceptable to good, and students rated its acceptability and utility favorably. Future work is necessary to examine the structure and psychometric properties of this new measure, but it shows initial promise as a mechanism for teachers to evaluate their online teaching. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)