مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Factors Affecting the Use of Educational Web Sites: A Scale Development Study

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to develop a scale for investigating the expectations of university students towards the educational web sites and the factors affecting their intentions to use these sites again. The final scale composed of 22 items was applied to 411 students of Aksaray University. The principal component analysis was used to obtain the evidence for the validity of the scale. Based on this analysis, it was determined that the scale has a structure composed of four main factors: expectation, perceived performance / usefulness, dis/confirmation, and satisfaction. This factor structure of the scale represents the model of Expectation and Confirmation Theory. To obtain evidence in terms of the reliability of the scale, internal consistency coefficients of the scale were calculated using the Cronbach Alpha formula. The Cronbach Alpha (α) coefficient was calculated for the overall scale as .91, for perceived usefulness as .83, for dis/confirmation as .85, for satisfaction as .85 and for intention as .76.