TY - JOUR
T1 - The Development and Validation of a Digital Fluency Scale for Preadolescents
AU - Chou, Ying Chun
AU - Chiu, Chiung Hui
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan under Grant No. MOST 103-2511-S-003 -024 -MY3 and MOST 105-2511-S-003 -017 -MY3, and was also supported by the “Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences” of National Taiwan Normal University from The Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. The authors would like to thank Chi Ciao and Pei Yu Chen for their support in data collection, and the teachers and students who participated in the study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, De La Salle University.
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - This study serves to develop a multidimensional scale for assessing the digital fluency of preadolescents. The researchers applied exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to evaluate the constancy of the classified factors and to elucidate relationships among factors in the Digital Fluency Scale. A total of 224 sixth-grade (aged 11–12) elementary school students studying in Taiwan were included in the first sample set for developing the Digital Fluency Scale using EFA to explore its factor structure. The participants of the second sample set using CFA numbered 442 elementary school students. CFA was used to elucidate the relationships among factors in this Digital Fluency Scale, with results indicating that a four-factor digital fluency comprised collaboration and research, digital citizenship, critical thinking and innovation design fit the data well. The Digital Fluency Scale included 15 items; the CFA result supported the four-factor model, with the best fit showing validity and reliability. The students had the highest score in digital citizenship, followed by innovation design, critical thinking, and collaboration and research. Female preadolescents had better digital fluency than male preadolescents.
AB - This study serves to develop a multidimensional scale for assessing the digital fluency of preadolescents. The researchers applied exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to evaluate the constancy of the classified factors and to elucidate relationships among factors in the Digital Fluency Scale. A total of 224 sixth-grade (aged 11–12) elementary school students studying in Taiwan were included in the first sample set for developing the Digital Fluency Scale using EFA to explore its factor structure. The participants of the second sample set using CFA numbered 442 elementary school students. CFA was used to elucidate the relationships among factors in this Digital Fluency Scale, with results indicating that a four-factor digital fluency comprised collaboration and research, digital citizenship, critical thinking and innovation design fit the data well. The Digital Fluency Scale included 15 items; the CFA result supported the four-factor model, with the best fit showing validity and reliability. The students had the highest score in digital citizenship, followed by innovation design, critical thinking, and collaboration and research. Female preadolescents had better digital fluency than male preadolescents.
KW - Digital fluency
KW - Elementary school students
KW - Instrument development
KW - Preadolescents
KW - Scale
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U2 - 10.1007/s40299-020-00505-1
DO - 10.1007/s40299-020-00505-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081621098
SN - 0119-5646
VL - 29
SP - 541
EP - 551
JO - Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
JF - Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
IS - 6
ER -