Instruments’Validation of Teacher Readiness and Technological Readiness on Smartphone Use Among Technology Design Teachers in Secondary School: Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)

Authors

  • Nazaruddin Abdul Hadi , Mahizer Hamzah , Mohd Hafiz M.D. Hanif

Abstract

his research intended to examine the instruments of teacher readiness and technological
readiness onsmartphone use among secondary school technology design teachers (RBT) in teaching and
facilitation (PdPc).A sum of 125 RBT teachers were involved as respondents in this study. Data were
analysed descriptively using Cronbach’s alpha reliability and Exploratory Factor Analysis(EFA) utilising
SPSS software. The analysis concluded that the Cronbach’s alpha values achieved were 0.879 and 0.722 for
teacher readiness and technological readiness, respectively, which was greater than 0.60. Results from the
EFA revealed four factors for teacher readiness’and technology readiness’ constructs with Eigenvalues
above 1.0. Teacher readiness constructs with a KMO value (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin) 0.581> 0.5. It indicated
that the items were adequate for inter-correlation and that Bartlett’s test was significant (Chi-Square
3175.802, p <0.05), anti-image value (Measure of Sampling Adequacy - MSA) for a correlation of more
than 0.5 items with only one item B12 should be excluded because the value obtained was less than 0.50 and
the total variance explained by these four factors was 57.45 per cent. The technology readiness construct
with a KMO value of 0.731> 0.5, the Bartlett test was significant (Chi-Square 1159.461, p <0.05), the antiimage value (Measure of Sampling Adequacy - MSA) for item correlation greater than 0.5. There were no
items excluded, and all four factors accounted for 70.12 per cent of the overall variance. The overall
conclusions proved that items for teacher readiness and technological readiness could measure and answer
the objectives of the study.

Published

2020-01-31

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