Determinants of Digital Transformation Adoption in
Education: An Evaluation of a Post-pandemic Case Study
in Vietnam
Authors: Huong Thi Pham
Journal for Educators,Teachers and Trainers
: 14(2) : 473- 486
Publishing year: 3/2023
In recent years, digital transformation (DT) has emerged as a subject with numerous promise
advantages across several industries. Prior papers focused mostly on identifying benefits and
obstacles, but less is known about validation, particularly in the educational sector. Thus, the
objective of this study is to fill the gap by examining the factors that influence the acceptance of
digital transformation in the education setting. 318 prospective adopters of DT consented to
participate in this research by completing an online survey through Google Form. These samples
were divided into 159 individuals for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and 159 observations for
confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The EFA favored a five-factor model, which was shown to explain
over 69% of the data variance. The tentative names for these hidden variables were policy, efficiency,
knowledge, facilitating conditions, and behavioral intention. Two items were excluded from the scale
measurement due to cross-loading on other factors. The findings of the CFA confirmed and validated
the five-factor model, with all test measures meeting the predefined thresholds, indicating an
acceptable fit. As opposed to evaluating individual indicators, the findings of this study present five
crucial topics for instructors, educators, and policymakers to examine, and they also provide a
foundation for interested researchers to perform further studies
digital transformation, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, postpandemic, research model validation.