Abstract

Data were collected from 101 subjects from the United States public to query an individual’s usage of technology and demographics, e.g., age, gender, region, and income. The data collection utilized various questions composed, modified, and augmented from survey questions published by Jackson et al. (2010) to create a new instrument to study the use of technology. Due to rapid technological advances, a new instrument is suggested to address deficiencies in available measurement instruments. The instrument created for preliminary assessment and analysis is the Technology Usage Survey, to which various analytic procedures were used to explore its constructs. Higher-order, hierarchical, and multidimensional factor analyses were conducted on the data to assess the latent variable and suggest improvement and redesign of the instrument with further research and expansion.

Citation

Thompson, J. (2024). Assessing Latent Variables: A Procedural Analysis of a Technology Usage Instrument. In J. Cohen & G. Solano (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 1139-1147). Las Vegas, Nevada, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 10, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/224102/.

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