THE EFFECTS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ENGAGEMENT FACTORS ON SCIENCE PERFORMANCE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND TURKEY USING MULTI -GROUP STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING

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ÖZKAN B., Tekeli F. N.

JOURNAL OF BALTIC SCIENCE EDUCATION, cilt.20, sa.4, ss.639-650, 2021 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 20 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.33225/jbse/21.20.639
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF BALTIC SCIENCE EDUCATION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.639-650
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: ICT engagement, measurement invariance, multi-group SEM, science performance, PISA 2018, GOODNESS-OF-FIT, LITERACY 1ST EVIDENCE, MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE, ACADEMIC-ACHIEVEMENT, STUDENTS, INDEXES
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) engagement, as a multidimensional construct, plays an increasingly important role in education. The main purpose of this research was to explore the effects of ICT engagement factors on science performance across Singapore and Turkey conditional to the sufficient degree of measurement invariance of ICT engagement scale. The multigroup confirmatory factor analysis results demonstrated strong factorial invariance of ICT engagement scale across Singapore and Turkey, so we were able to use ICT engagement scale to meaningful and valid comparisons between these countries. After obtaining measurement invariance, a multi-group structural equation modeling was used for the comparison of the effects of ICT engagement factors on student's performance of science between these two countries. While interest in ICT, perceived ICT competence and perceived autonomy in using ICT have significant positive direct effect on science performance in both countries, the direct effect of social relatedness in using ICT on science performance is negative in both Singapore and Turkey. Also, when compared with Singapore, the effects of all ICT engagement constructs on student's performance are higher in Turkey.