Information and communication technology use capacity within extension networks: Development and preliminary validation of an empirical scale
Advancing information and communication technologies (ICTs) has become central to international agricultural and extension development efforts. ICTs are crucial in facilitating information transfer, ensuring stakeholder access to information, and increasing the decision-making capacity of smallholde...
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Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
2021
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| author | Lamm, Kevan W. Lamm, Alexa J. Davis, Kristin E. Sanders, Catherine E. Powell, Alyssa |
| author_browse | Davis, Kristin E. Lamm, Alexa J. Lamm, Kevan W. Powell, Alyssa Sanders, Catherine E. |
| author_facet | Lamm, Kevan W. Lamm, Alexa J. Davis, Kristin E. Sanders, Catherine E. Powell, Alyssa |
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| description | Advancing information and communication technologies (ICTs) has become central to international agricultural and extension development efforts. ICTs are crucial in facilitating information transfer, ensuring stakeholder access to information, and increasing the decision-making capacity of smallholder farmers. The research presented here introduces an instrument developed to quantify perceptions of ICT use capacity within international extension networks. The aggregate scale was verified for content validity, response process validity, internal structure validity, and consequential validity informing its use. The instrument was administered to network members (n = 122) associated with the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with measures of correlation and reliability analysed. Six factors were extracted and analysed further. The resulting Perceptions of ICT Use scale and factors can be used as reliable instruments for quantifying perceptions of ICT use capacity, enhancing international extension network needs assessments, and informing policies and practices which maximize ICT capacity. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1427202025-02-24T06:48:48Z Information and communication technology use capacity within extension networks: Development and preliminary validation of an empirical scale Lamm, Kevan W. Lamm, Alexa J. Davis, Kristin E. Sanders, Catherine E. Powell, Alyssa agricultural extension information and communication technologies capacity assessment Advancing information and communication technologies (ICTs) has become central to international agricultural and extension development efforts. ICTs are crucial in facilitating information transfer, ensuring stakeholder access to information, and increasing the decision-making capacity of smallholder farmers. The research presented here introduces an instrument developed to quantify perceptions of ICT use capacity within international extension networks. The aggregate scale was verified for content validity, response process validity, internal structure validity, and consequential validity informing its use. The instrument was administered to network members (n = 122) associated with the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with measures of correlation and reliability analysed. Six factors were extracted and analysed further. The resulting Perceptions of ICT Use scale and factors can be used as reliable instruments for quantifying perceptions of ICT use capacity, enhancing international extension network needs assessments, and informing policies and practices which maximize ICT capacity. 2021-08-24 2024-05-22T12:10:56Z 2024-05-22T12:10:56Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142720 en https://doi.org/10.4148/2831-5960.1100 https://doi.org/10.4148/2831-5960.1120 https://doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2019.26304 https://doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2018.25204 https://doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2017.24207 https://doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2021.283104 https://doi.org/10.1080/1389224X.2021.1984956 https://doi.org/10.4148/2831-5960.1029 Open Access Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education Lamm, Kevan W.; Lamm, Alexa J.; Davis, Kristin E.; Sanders, Catherine E.; and Powell, Alyssa. 2021. Information and communication technology use capacity within extension networks: Development and preliminary validation of an empirical scale. Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education 28(4): 15-31. https://doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2021.28408 |
| spellingShingle | agricultural extension information and communication technologies capacity assessment Lamm, Kevan W. Lamm, Alexa J. Davis, Kristin E. Sanders, Catherine E. Powell, Alyssa Information and communication technology use capacity within extension networks: Development and preliminary validation of an empirical scale |
| title | Information and communication technology use capacity within extension networks: Development and preliminary validation of an empirical scale |
| title_full | Information and communication technology use capacity within extension networks: Development and preliminary validation of an empirical scale |
| title_fullStr | Information and communication technology use capacity within extension networks: Development and preliminary validation of an empirical scale |
| title_full_unstemmed | Information and communication technology use capacity within extension networks: Development and preliminary validation of an empirical scale |
| title_short | Information and communication technology use capacity within extension networks: Development and preliminary validation of an empirical scale |
| title_sort | information and communication technology use capacity within extension networks development and preliminary validation of an empirical scale |
| topic | agricultural extension information and communication technologies capacity assessment |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142720 |
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