Distance Education Attitudes (DEAS) During Covid-19 Crisis: Factor Structure, Reliability and Construct Validity of the Brief DEA Scale in Greek-Speaking SEND Teachers
- 16 November 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Technology, Knowledge and Learning
- Vol. 26 (3), 461-479
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-020-09483-1
Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties (factor structure, reliability and construct validity) of the Brief Distance Education Attitudes (DEA) scale. Four hundred twenty-two SEND teachers filled out socio-demographic data forms and the DEAS. Factors were extracted by EFA (Principal Components Analysis) and confirmed by Analysis of Moment Structures. No floor-ceiling effects were observed. No significant differences of skewness and kurtosis were observed between the two Domains. All goodness of fit indices generated by CFA were found satisfactory (TLI = 0.962 > 0.95, RMSEA = .035 < 0.08, CFI = 0.943 ≥ 0.90, χ2(34) = 57.93, p = .000 and SRMR = 0.034 < 0.08). Cronbach’s alpha value formed at α = .764. SEND teachers’ attitudes towards Efficacy in Distance Education and Difficulties Related to Distance Education are considered as significant factors for the implementation of distance education during COVID-19 crisis. Consequently, universities, education technology corporations and policy makers should take consideration of these factors so as to train SEND teachers’ and support emergency remote-teaching scenarios.Keywords
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