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Analysis of Psychometric Properties and Validation of the Personal Learning Environments Questionnaire (B-PLE) in Higher Education Students

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  • José Luis Carrasco-Sáez

    (Faculty of Education, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile
    Corporación Pewün Kimeltu, Concepción 4080713, Chile)

  • Marcelo Careaga Butter

    (Researcher of ICT Nucleus, ICT in Educational and Intercultural Contexts, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile
    CIEDE-UCSC, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile)

  • María Graciela Badilla-Quintana

    (Researcher of ICT Nucleus, ICT in Educational and Intercultural Contexts, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile
    CIEDE-UCSC, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile)

  • Juan Molina-Farfán

    (Department of Science of Language and Literature, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile)

Abstract

We are living through a cultural transition, characterized by technological disruption and the erosion of the modern ideology, which are redefining the behavior of citizens in their physical and digital spaces. Virtuality emerges as a new human dimension, making it necessary to rethink social and educational paradigms for a new two-dimensional citizen. In this context, the psychometric features and validation procedure of an instrument (B-PLE) for analyzing Personal Learning Environments (PLE) in students of higher education institutions in the Biobío Region of Chile are described. There were four phases to the validation method: (i) content validity, as determined by six experts in education and ICT; (ii) pilot test, with a non-probabilistic sample of 327 subjects; (iii) principal components analysis (PCA); and (iv) confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The results of the dimensional analysis made it possible to define the structure of the new instrument, explaining 72% of the total variance. The reliability analysis yielded an alpha coefficient of 0.92. The confirmatory factor analysis showed fit indexes that support the proposed theoretical model. In conclusion, the instrument was composed of three latent variables: Open learning (OL), with six questions, Information management (IM), with two questions, and Knowledge creation and transfer (KCT), with three questions.

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  • José Luis Carrasco-Sáez & Marcelo Careaga Butter & María Graciela Badilla-Quintana & Juan Molina-Farfán, 2021. "Analysis of Psychometric Properties and Validation of the Personal Learning Environments Questionnaire (B-PLE) in Higher Education Students," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-17, August.
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