Students and Teachers' Intention to Use Technology: Assessing Their Measurement Equivalence and Structural Invariance

Abstract

This study proposed a model to explain the students' and teachers' intention to use (ITU) technology. A sample of 1,095 participants (503 students and 592 teachers) responded to a 15-item, 7-point scale designed to measure six variables: perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use, attitude toward use (ATU), facilitating conditions, computer self-efficacy (CSE), and ITU technology. Results of this study showed that the six variables were valid in explaining the ITU technology for both student and teacher groups. Hypothesis tests revealed that eight of nine hypotheses were supported. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis found support for full configural and metric invariance, and partial scalar invariance in the data. Finally, the results revealed that only two paths, PU → ATU and CSE → ATU were structurally invariant in the research model. Implications of this study are discussed and future research possibilities proposed.