Development and Initial Validation of Leadership for Technology Integration Scale in Schools

Authors: Mehmet Durnalı - İbrahim Limon - Behiye Dağdeviren Ertaş

The literature highlights the critical role of principals in fostering a digitally-enabled educational environment. In this sense, this study aims to develop and validate "The Leadership for Technology Integration Scale for School Principals (LETIS-SP)". The scale measures the principals’ technology integration leadership behaviors based on teachers’ perceptions. A thorough literature review was conducted and an item pool of 60 items were created. Following expert opinions and content validity ratios a draft scale with 18 items emerged. First, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with a sample of 225 teachers. The EFA findings showed that the scale was uni-dimensional. Then, confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the uni-dimensional structure of the scale. In this step, 200 teachers participated in the study. Consequently, the findings showed that the scale included 18 items. Cronbach’s Alpha internal consistency coefficient was .96 which was satisfactory. Based on these findings, it can be concluded the scale has adequate psychometric properties sought in the literature.

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