Adaptation of the Academic Digital Literacy Scale for College Students: A Validity and Reliability Study

Abstract

Today's students can also be called "Generation Z," which cannot be separated from their digital life. The characteristics of Generation Z, "digital natives," are very comfortable using digital devices in their social media life. Even though students as a whole are comfortable with digital technologies for interaction, they are still learning how to incorporate digital devices into their academic lives. The aim of the research is to adapt a digital literacy measuring tool to become the Indonesian version of student academic digital literacy. Adaptation methods include translation, synthesis, expert committee review, and pretesting. The research respondents were 364 students in the province of East Java, Indonesia. Data analysis used confirmatory factor analysis with M-Plus software. The results showed that the loading factor values ranged from 0.47-0.87 and met the minimum criteria, so they could be said to be valid. The reliability is indicated by the value alpha = 0.87 and CR = 0.89, which has met the minimum criteria, so it is reliable, while the AVE = 0.74 has met the minimum criteria, so it shows good convergence.