Validating students' lifelong learning competencies scale in digital age

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AYATI MOHSEN; Rodi Aliabadi Sorayya; RostamiNejad MohammadAli

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Journal: Journal of Educational Sciences Year:2020 | Volume:6 (26) | Issue:2 Page(s): 177-196

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Validating students' lifelong learning competencies scale in digital age

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AYATI MOHSEN | Rodi Aliabadi Sorayya | RostamiNejad MohammadAli | Issue Writer Certificate

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lifelong learning competencyQ1

digital competenceQ1

StudentsQ2

Factor analysisQ2

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Introduction Knowledge is changing and so are science and technology, so citizens ought to be updated and upgrade their knowledge and skills. Today lifelong learning is based on competences that have attracted the attention of the learning community. Students' lifelong learning competency is important. There are some scales such as attitudes to lifelong learning, lifelong learner characteristics, education for lifelong learning and effective lifelong learning for this purpose. But in this context there is not any scale for measureing Students lifelong competencies with rergard to digital competencies in Iran. The aim of this study was to examine the factor structure and reliability of Uzunboylu and Hursen lifelong learning competence scale. Method With regard to data collection in this quantitative study a descriptivecorrelational research design were used. The research population consisted of all Students in University of Birjand (12, 000 total). The sample size based on a valid general rule for Factor analysis was calcuculated to be 300 subjects. Accordingly, a sample of 300 Students from University of Birjand were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. The participants were selected, from colleges of science, literature, agriculture, engineering, education-psychology and art were selected. After administrating the questionnaire, data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software. Results Exploratory Factor analysis results identified six components for lifelong learning competencies that explained 49. 46% variance of lifelong learning competency constructs. Confirmatory Factor analysis results separated clearly 42 items lifelong learning in the six Factor using the Appropriate fitness indicators. The findings of the model indicated that the fitness indices were desirable. the Chi-square ratio to degrees of freedom was 1. 72 which was small enough indicating the fit of the model with the data, the comparative fit indicate (CFI), the Good Fitness indicate (GFI), the Adapted Fitness indicate (AFI) were 0. 85, 0. 96 and 0. 92, respectively, expressing the good fit of the model with data. The root mean square error (RMSEA) was 0. 051 which is also the appropriate fit condition for the model. In general, these fitness indices indicate a good fit of the model with research data. Cronbach's alpha coefficient of all items was 0. 91 and for subscales selfmanagement, learning how to learn, initiative and entrepreneurship, digital competence, acquiring information and decision-making lay between 0. 66 to 0. 85. For correlation between total score and subscales Pearson correlation coefficient was calculated. The results showed the correlation between the subscales of the Persian version and the scale of the whole scale to be in the range of 0. 86 to 0. 88. Thus, each of the six sub-scales had a high correlation with the total scale scores. Discussion The scale can be used to assess the competency of lifelong learning and ultimately to improve the quality of education in the digital society. Efforts to improve the quality of education are essential in higher education, as Students are expected to become independent and lifelong learners. As a result, it can be seen from these scales that the teaching method at universities should develop these competencies.

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AYATI, MOHSEN, Rodi Aliabadi, Sorayya, & RostamiNejad, MohammadAli. (2020). Validating students' lifelong learning competencies scale in digital age. JOURNAL OF EDUCATION (JOURNAL OF EDUCATION & PSYCHOLOGY), 6 (26)(2 ), 177-196. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/186695/en

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AYATI MOHSEN, Rodi Aliabadi Sorayya, RostamiNejad MohammadAli. Validating students' lifelong learning competencies scale in digital age. JOURNAL OF EDUCATION (JOURNAL OF EDUCATION & PSYCHOLOGY)[Internet]. 2020;6 (26)(2 ):177-196. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/186695/en

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MOHSEN AYATI, Sorayya Rodi Aliabadi, and MohammadAli RostamiNejad, “Validating students' lifelong learning competencies scale in digital age,” JOURNAL OF EDUCATION (JOURNAL OF EDUCATION & PSYCHOLOGY), vol. 6 (26), no. 2 , pp. 177–196, 2020, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/186695/en

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