Flexible Attendance Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulation Identifier (FASSI): Supporting Non-traditional Students In Flexible Attendance Environments

Distance education no longer means remote education. It has evolved to encompass modes of instruction that take advantage of the best practices of distance, traditional, and asynchronous education. Flexible attendance (FA) instruction allows students, especially non-traditional students, the opportunity to use technology-supported interaction to attend courses based on each student's life demands. Students can choose between in-person in a classroom, at home synchronously online and present, or on their own asynchronous schedule. The Flexible Attendance Self-efficacy and Self-regulation Identifier (FASSI) provides data needed to support and design for non-traditional students' success in FA. The FASSI instrument examines the Self-efficacy and Self-regulation skills required to thrive in an FA environment, regardless of the student's mode of instruction. The FASSI study was conducted at a community college in the American Pacific Northwest.