A scale development study to determine the digital citizenship levels of social studies teachers

Abstract

The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable scale to determine the digital citizenship levels of social studies teachers. In the scale development phase, a scale item pool of 79 items was created. The created scale item pool was submitted to expert opinion; 44 items were removed in the first stage and 14 items were removed in the second stage. The draft scale was applied to 321 social studies teachers working in secondary schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Eskisehir province in the 2021-2022 academic year. As a result of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, a unique, valid and reliable digital citizenship scale for social studies teachers with 4 factors and 21 items was developed with a total variance explained of 54.959%. Cronbach Alpha coefficient for the whole scale was calculated as 0.91. The data obtained proved that the scale is a valid and reliable scale.