PERCEIVED CONTRIBUTION OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY TO HIGHER EDUCATION FUNCTIONS: RESPONSE PATTERNS AND RELIABILITY OF A PILOT INSTRUMENT IN NORTH MALUKU
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https://doi.org/10.33387/humano.v17i2.12799Kata Kunci:
perceived technological contribution, higher education, ceiling effect, scale reliability, North MalukuAbstrak
Digital technology is expected to support not only teaching but also research, community service, governance and partnership in higher education institutions. This pilot study examined how higher-education users in North Maluku, Indonesia, rate the contribution of digital technology to these functions and whether a brief ten-item instrument can distinguish between them. An exploratory cross-sectional online survey was conducted from 25 August to 12 September 2026 with a convenience sample of 38 students, alumni, lecturers and employed graduates, who rated ten positively worded five-point Likert-type items. Item estimates were reported with 95% confidence intervals, distinguishability was assessed with an exact best-case bound for Holm-corrected Wilcoxon comparisons, and reliability was examined with Cronbach’s alpha, the mean inter-item correlation and Spearman–Brown projections. The composite mean was high (M = 4.45, 95% CI [4.31, 4.59]), but 98.2% of responses fell in the two highest categories, indicating a strong ceiling effect. No pairwise difference between functions could reach significance under any data configuration. Alpha was .94, the mean inter-item correlation was about .59, and six items would suffice for alpha = .90, indicating item redundancy. The instrument captured shared positivity but could not discriminate between institutional functions and should be revised before wider use.
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