Abstract:

When the effects of digital technologies on education are studied, the educational environments, the teaching materials, methods and techniques are observed differently. This has brought up the concept of digital literature. Digital reading skills are one of the important skills that individuals should have in the century we are in. Students can get acquainted and use digital tools without learning to read and write. The teachers are unable to stand up at this speed. Therefore, teachers and teachers candidates need to effectively use digital tools and have digital reading skills. The aim of this research is to develop a measurement tool to measure the digital literary skills of teachers candidates, teachers and educators. The research participants are composed of 424 teachers candidates who are studying at a faculty during the 2017-2018 academic year and who participate voluntarily in the study, selected with appropriate sampling. The study on the scan model was based on the work of Ng(2012) and Noh(2017) in the process of developing the scale. The developed scale is a liquid type scale of 5 and consists of three factors (educational technologies, information and communication, technology) and 44 items. For the structural validity of the measurement, the opening factor analysis (AFA) and the verifying factor analysis (DFA) were performed. The first factor contains a total of 18 substances and the factor load of these substances is 0.367 to 0.803; the second factor contains a total of 15 substances and the factor load of these substances is 0.482 to 0.675; the third factor contains a total of 11 substances and the factor load of these substances varies from 0.509 to 0.742. The Cronbach Alfa ratio in the first factor is 0.92; the second factor is 0.90; the third factor is 0.91 and a high internal consistency has been achieved. As a result, it can be said that the "Digital Reading Scale" is a valid and reliable scale that can be used in determining the digital reading skills of teachers, teachers candidates and educators.