Psychometric Properties of a Digital Citizenship Questionnaire

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Fuad Trayek

Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Technology

Doctor/PhD member of the INSTITUT DE DIPLOMATIE PUBLIQUE

Abstract

The purpose of this study was twofold, i.e. to examine the extent to which students’ self-reported use of digital technology constituted meaningful and interpretable dimensions of the digital citizenship construct, and to test the adequacy of the construct in terms of its reliability, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and measurement equivalence for male and female students. The sample consisted of 391 undergraduates from 15 institutions of higher education in Malaysia. The data were collected using a self-reported 17-item questionnaire measuring university students’ digital citizenship behaviours. The result