Development and Initial Testing of Google Meet Use Scale (GMU-S) in Educational Activities During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

Al-Emran M., Arpaci İ., Al-Sharafi M. A.

International Conference on Information Systems and Intelligent Applications, ICISIA 2022, Virtual, Online, 1 - 02 Temmuz 2022, cilt.550 LNNS, ss.759-770, (Tam Metin Bildiri) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 550 LNNS
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/978-3-031-16865-9_60
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Virtual, Online
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.759-770
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: COVID-19, Education, GMU-S, Google meet, Scale development
  • Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Google Meet has been identified as one of the effective virtual meeting platforms that has the potential to deliver the learning materials to students during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a scale evaluating its use for instructional activities has yet to be developed. Therefore, we developed the Google Meet use scale (GMU-S) and evaluated its characteristics among two samples with a total of 560 participants. The results indicated that the GMU-S has initial evidence of internal consistency reliability, construct, convergent, and discriminant validity. This study provides evidence that the developed scale is sound to evaluate the use of Google Meet in educational activities during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and other emergencies that might affect the education sector. Theoretically, this research is believed to be one of the pioneered studies that reported the development and initial testing of a new scale (GMU-S). Practically, the developed scale can be generalized to evaluate the use of other virtual meeting platforms (e.g., Skype, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, etc.).