The Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure University Teachers’ Attitude towards Ethical Use of Information Technology for a Sustainable Education

Liliana Mâță, Otilia Clipa and Katerina Tzafilkou
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Liliana Mâță: Teacher Training Department, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, 600115 Bacau, Romania
Otilia Clipa: Educational Sciences Department, Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720029 Suceava, Romania
Katerina Tzafilkou: Department of Information System, University of Macedonia, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 15, 1-20

Abstract: A self-administered measurement tool was developed and validated to provide data regarding ethical attitude of university teachers for a sustainable education. The research was based on several factors involved in forming attitudes towards the unethical information technology use. The sample: 334 Romanian teachers’ respondents who teach in the higher education system contributed to this research. A successions of factor analyses and structural equation modeling showed that a second-order model is a good fit for experimental data (χ2/df = 1.75, comparative fit index = 0.958, root mean square error of approximation = 0.045), however the partial least square (PLS-SEM) CFA approach revealed higher scores of factor loadings, implying the best fit to the model. This research suggested a structural model of ethical attitude of university teachers, composed by four factors measured by 13 indices. The results demonstrated that PLS-SEM CFA is appropriate for creating a valid structural model to measure university teachers’ ICT ethical attitude. The current research predicted a theoretical contribution to the field of ethical attitude of university teachers within a sustainable education context.

Keywords: CBA factor analysis; ICT ethics; PLS-SEM factor analysis; scale validation; teachers’ ethical attitude (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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