THE CONSTRUCTION OF DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP: DIGITAL ETIQUETTE SITUATION SCALE FOR LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

           The purpose of this research wasto construct and validate thequality of a digital citizenship: digital etiquette scale for lower secondary school students.The samples were selected by using multi-stage sampling which included 600lower secondary school students from Secondary EducationalService Area Office One. The instrument used for the research was the digital citizenship: digital etiquette situation scale for lower secondary school students. The data analysis for the discrimination, the reliability and the confirmatory factor analysis.

           The results of the research were as followsthedigital citizenship: digital etiquette scale for lower secondary school students consists of 24itemshad three factors and six indicators. The Index of Item-Objective Congruence (IOC) varied from 0.60 to 1.00.The item discriminationsvaried from 0.258 to 0.590 and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.875. The digital citizenship: digital etiquette scale correlated with the empirical data and a construct validity from confirmatory factor analysis by considering the following: Chi-square=230.745, df=200, p-value=0.067, χ²/df=1.154, GFI=0.972, AGFI=0.959, RMSEA=0.016.