Abstract:

In recent years, many formal or non-formal educations have been carried out online-based, and adult individuals prefer to perform their desired education and religious education online. Online-based trainings are carried out in the form of presentations or seminars from social media channels such as Instagram and Youtube, and interactively through channels such as Zoom, TeamLink, Teams. In this study, "The Level of Participation in Online Religious Education Scale" has been tried to be developed. The data has been obtained by means of item forms applied to 642 adults aged 18-40 and over in electronic environment. The KMO value of the scale is found to be 0,810, the Bartlett test value found to be x2(15) = 1258,729 p=0,000, and chi-square value is determined to be significant. As a result of the analysis, a single factor group was determined as "The Level of Participation in Online Religious Education". The total variance explained by the scale is 52.542, and the factor loads of the items vary between 0.540 and 0.675. The scale consists of 10 items and the results obtained showed that the sample size was “adequate” for factor analysis. As a result of the analysis carried out to determine the distinctiveness of the items in the scale, the mean scores of the lower 27% and the upper 27% were compared with the independent t-test and it is determined that there is a statistically significant difference between the averages of the group item scores. In the study, it has been revealed that the scale is distinctive in terms of measuring the desired quality. The Level of Participation in Online Religious Education Scale (CAES) has been designed as a tool to measure the level of adult participants in every field.

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