Determinants of Digital Transformation Adoption in Education: An Evaluation of a Post-pandemic Case Study in Vietnam

Abstract

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.