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In the past few years, the advances of the tablet computer have captured the imagination of the educators all around the world. The determination of the tablet computer familiarity is an important issue. There were some computer familiarity questionnaires or scales developed in the past studies; however, the questionnaire of tablet computer familiarity was not concerned yet. The purpose of this study was to develop a tablet computer familiarity questionnaire. 409 college students took part in this study. According to the item analysis and the exploratory factor analysis (EFA), there were 32 items under 5 factors in the questionnaire. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.916 and the Pearson’s correlation coefficient was acceptable. In other words, the reliability was suitable. Further discussion would be given regarding to the questionnaire.
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Zheng, X., Cheng, W., Xu, B., Chen, G., Huang, R. (2015). An Initial Development and Validation of Tablet Computer Familiarity Questionnaire. In: Chen, G., Kumar, V., Kinshuk, ., Huang, R., Kong, S. (eds) Emerging Issues in Smart Learning. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44188-6_9
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