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Validation of The Scale on Pre-Service Teachers’ Digital Competence to Assist Students with Functional Diversity

Alfiya R. Masalimova 1 * , Klavdiya G. Erdyneeva 2 , Anatoly S. Kislyakov 3 , Zhanna M. Sizova 4 , Elena Kalashnikova 5 , Elmira R. Khairullina 6
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1 The Institute of Psychology and Education, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, RUSSIA2 Department of Pedagogy, Transbaikal State University, Chita, RUSSIA3 Department of Humanities, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, RUSSIA4 Department of Medical and Social Assessment, Emergency, and Ambulatory Practice, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, RUSSIA5 Department of Foreign Languages, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, RUSSIA6 Faculty of Design and Software Engineering, Kazan National Research Technological University, Kazan, RUSSIA* Corresponding Author
Contemporary Educational Technology, 14(4), October 2022, ep382, https://doi.org/10.30935/cedtech/12301
Published: 01 August 2022
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ABSTRACT

One of the objectives of education is to provide diverse pupils with proper educational opportunities. It is anticipated that the night instructors will have this equipment. In this study, validity, and reliability evaluations of the scale to be used to identify digital competence in prospective instructors to support children with functional diversity were conducted. To conduct the research, education faculty students were selected as the target audience. The data gathered were subjected to exploratory factor analysis. A confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the obtained results. According to the findings of the investigation, thirty components and five contributing variables were found. It has been proposed that future academics do studies on the validity and reliability of the instruments with a number of different populations.
Keywords: pre-service teachers, digital competence, assist students

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Masalimova, A. R., Erdyneeva, K. G., Kislyakov, A. S., Sizova, Z. M., Kalashnikova, E., & Khairullina, E. R. (2022). Validation of The Scale on Pre-Service Teachers’ Digital Competence to Assist Students with Functional Diversity. Contemporary Educational Technology, 14(4), ep382. https://doi.org/10.30935/cedtech/12301

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