Test of Gender Invariance of the E-learning Acceptance Scale of College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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This research aimed to 1) assess the reliability, construct validity of the E-learning acceptance scale and 2) test gender invariance of the E-learning acceptance scale. The sample consisted of 400 students of the Faculty of Management Science of Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University; power analysis for structural equation modeling was used to determine the sample size. Stratified random sampling based on gender using secondary dataset of e-learning effectiveness evaluation was used. Frequency, percentage, the mean and standard deviation, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multi-group confirmatory factor analysis were used to analyze the data.
The results yielded that 1) the E-learning acceptance scale was composed of 3 constructs: perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and intention to use e-learning, with high reliability of 0.91, 0.92 and 0.93 accordingly. The confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that the measurement model labeled a high quality of construct validity (2=32.93, df=24, p-value=0.11, CFI=.99, RMSEA=0.03), and 2) the E-learning acceptance scale featured strict gender invariance.
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