Analyzing the Digital Transformation Competence of Vietnamese Students Using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)

In Vietnam, digital transformation has been taking place strongly in all fields, especially education. Universities are very interested and focused on promoting digital transformation activities at their facilities. Students are individuals who participateand directly benefit from this process. The question is how competent students are when participating in digital transformation at the institution. This article focuses on researching the digital transformation competencyof Vietnamese students in general, and at Commerce Universityin particular. From there, it provides educational institutions with theperspective of the digital transformation competencyof students. Especially, based on experiments conducted with 405 students at the Universities of Commerce, the research group applied the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) method and multiple linear regression to identify seven factors influencingdigital transformation competence: "Interest", "Usefulness", "Importance", "Personal capacity", "Relationship", "University"and these seven factors explained 71.7% of the variation in digital transformation competence. In summary, the research provides support for educational institutions to develop plans for enhancing the digital transformation competency of studentsin general and at Thuongmai University in particular.