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Sociological Importance and Validation of a Questionnaire for the Sustainability of Personal Learning Environments (PLE) in 8th Grade Students of the Biobío Region in Chile

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  • José Luis Carrasco-Sáez

    (Faculty of Education, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile)

  • Marcelo Careaga Butter

    (Educational Informatics and Knowledge Management Unit, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile
    CIEDE-UCSC, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile)

  • María Graciela Badilla-Quintana

    (Educational Informatics and Knowledge Management Unit, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile
    CIEDE-UCSC, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile)

  • Laura Jiménez Pérez

    (ICT Nucleus TIC in Educational and Intercultural Contexts, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción; Concepción 4090541, Chile)

  • Juan Molina Farfán

    (Educational Informatics and Knowledge Management Unit, Faculty of Education, Universidad Católica de la Santísima, Concepción 4090541, Chile
    Faculty of Education, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile)

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Contemporary society is going through a cultural transition that leads to new conceptions about the ways in which human beings organize socially and communicate. This process of deep social and cultural transformations is characterized by a technological disruption, in which virtuality forms a new dimension that behaves as an extension of human intelligence. This new form of human interaction impacts on the social imagination, demanding one to rethink social and educational paradigms for the two-dimensional citizen. In this context, this research article describes the sociological importance and the process of social adaptation of users to a personal learning environment (PLE). It includes the validation process of an instrument for the study of the PLE of 8th grade students belonging to 15 schools in the Biobío Region of Chile. A PLE is a frame of reference that can help to understand how two-dimensional citizens socially adapt and influence the sustainability of local and global systems. The validation method for this instrument considered four stages: i) Expert judgment: considering the opinions of six educators and experts in information and communication technologies (ICT); ii) a pilot test: that included a non-probabilistic sample of 472 subjects; iii) a principal components analysis (PCA); and iv) a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The Questionnaire on Work Habits and Learning for Professional Futures and the Context Questionnaire SIMCE TIC were used as a reference. When performing a psychometric analysis, a Cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.89 was obtained. This confirms that the adaptation of the instrument is good. The results of the dimensional analysis help us define a structure for the new instrument considering three components that explain 55% of the total variance. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed adjustment indexes that support the theoretical model proposed for the PLE study. In conclusion, the instrument was composed of three latent variables: Open self-regulated learning (OSRL) with eight questions, information management (IM) with four questions, and creation and transfer of knowledge (CTK) with four questions.

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  • José Luis Carrasco-Sáez & Marcelo Careaga Butter & María Graciela Badilla-Quintana & Laura Jiménez Pérez & Juan Molina Farfán, 2019. "Sociological Importance and Validation of a Questionnaire for the Sustainability of Personal Learning Environments (PLE) in 8th Grade Students of the Biobío Region in Chile," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(5), pages 1-15, March.
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