NOTE FOR EDITOR: Investigating The Factor Structure Of The Blog Attitude Scale

Zahra SHAHSAVAR; Bee Hoon TAN; S. Vahid ARYADOUST

Makale detayları

NOTE FOR EDITOR: Investigating The Factor Structure Of The Blog Attitude Scale

Yazarlar:

Zahra SHAHSAVAR | Bee Hoon TAN | S. Vahid ARYADOUST

Yayıncı:

Anadolu University

Dergi:

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education 2010 Vol.11 Issue 4, pp.12-24

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

11/2010

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000783363

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

pISSN:

1302-6488

Özet:

 

Due to the wide application of advanced technology in education, many attitude scales have been developed to evaluate learners’ attitudes toward educational tools. However, with the rapid development of emerging technologies, using blogs as one of the Web 2.0 tools is still in its infancy and few blog attitude scales have been developed yet. In view of this need, a lot of researchers like to design a new scale based on their conceptual and theoretical framework of their own study rather than using available scales.  The present study reports the design and development of a blog attitude scale (BAS). The researchers developed a pool of items to capture the complexity of the blog attitude trait, selected 29 items in the content analysis, and assigned the scale comprising 29 items to 216 undergraduate students to explore the underlying structure of the BAS. In exploratory factor analysis, three factors were discovered: blog anxiety, blog desirability, and blog self-efficacy; 14 items were excluded. The extracted items were subjected to a confirmatory factor analysis which lent further support to the BAS underpinning structure.

Makale detayları

NOTE FOR EDITOR: Investigating The Factor Structure Of The Blog Attitude Scale

Yazarlar: Zahra SHAHSAVAR | Bee Hoon TAN | S. Vahid ARYADOUST

Yayıncı: Anadolu University

Dergi: Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education 2010 Vol.11 Issue 4, pp.12-24

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 11/2010

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000783363

Sıklık: Üç Aylık

pISSN: 1302-6488

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Zahra SHAHSAVAR | Bee Hoon TAN | S. Vahid ARYADOUST

Yayıncı:

Anadolu University

Dergi:

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education 2010 Vol.11 Issue 4, pp.12-24

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

11/2010

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000783363

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

pISSN:

1302-6488