The Role of Digital Citizenship in Producing Collective Efficacy: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach (Poster 14)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Fifteen
  In Poster Session: Equity, Community, and Citizenship

Abstract

We use Structural Equation Modeling to understand whether online agency students show in Internet ecologies contributes to development of collective efficacy, or perceived tendency to individually contribute to groups and work with the collective cohesively, in technology-assisted classrooms. We derive data from responses of 673 undergraduate students in a blog-assisted education class, to two self-report measures assessing online collective efficacy in classrooms, and digital citizenship. Since gender, screen exposure and experience in online gaming communities have been shown to affect technology usership in previous studies, we control for these variables. Results suggest gaming experience and digital citizenship, or preponderance of adaptive individual and collective online behaviors students display inform the development of collective efficacy in a blog-driven college class.

Authors

• Shantanu Tilak, Chesapeake Bay Academy
  Presenting Author

• Michael Glassman, The Ohio State University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Joshua Peri, The Ohio State University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Menglin Xu, The Ohio State University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Irina Kuznetcova, Akita International University
  Non-Presenting Author