Rating online technology proficiency in adult education: The correlation between task complexity and task proficiency

This study provides an online technology proficiency rating scale for adult education. Over one hundred experts rated twenty commonly used technology criteria in order to produce a reliable Thurstone method of equal-appearing interval scale. The assessment of the initial sample using the scale shows a significant correlation between self-assessed proficiency and self-assessed comfort levels with technology as well as a valid negative correlation between the task complexity and task proficiency.