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The purpose of this study is to identify the reliability and validity of the Turkish form of University Students’ Basic Digital Competences 2.0 - COBADI® scale, which was developed based on European Commission’s Digital Competence (DigCom) framework. The original version of the COBADI scale is English and consists of 31 items under 4 dimensions. Firstly, the COBADI scale was translated into Turkish and the controls were carried out by field experts. Validity and reliability of the COBADI scale was conducted in a state university of Turkey. Data from 300 students were used within the scope of exploratory factor analysis, and data from 440 students within the scope of confirmatory factor analysis. Exploratory Factor Analysis was employed in order to investigate the validity of the scale. Factor naming was carried out considering the results of the exploratory factor analysis and the Digital Competences 2.1 framework of the European Commission. Factors were determined as Digital content development, Information and data literacy, Communication, University's virtual tools and social communication, and Problem solving. Confirmatory Factor Analysis was applied for the construct validity of the Turkish form of the scale. The reliability of the scale was verified by calculating the Cronbach Alpha internal consistency coefficients. The internal consistency coefficient of the scale was calculated. According to the analyzes conducted in the study, the validity and reliability of the Turkish form of the COBADI scale were verified.

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