Parents’ and Teachers’ Views on Digital Communication in Finland
Table 2
Rotated factor structure of the DCS for parents and teachers.
Item
Factor 1
Factor 2
Factor 3
h2
Partnership
Encouraging feedback
Unclear communication
Factor loading
Factor loading
Factor loading
Parents/teachers
Parents/teachers
Parents/teachers
Parents/teachers
1. Digital communication supports educational partnership3
0.87/0.64
0.77/0.54
2. Digital communication supports co-operation3
0.79/0.47
0.58/0.40
3. Digital communication supports trust3
0.74/0.79
0.58/0.56
4. Digital communication supports the feeling that I’m heard in discussing my child’s studies/…I’m heard when I’m informing parents3
0.72/0.35
0.66/0.31
5. I can support teachers’ educational work with digital communication/…parents’ educational work with digital communication3
0.65/0.81
0.43/0.60
6. I get versatile information about my child’s studies/I can give versatile information via digital communication about my pupils’ studies2
0.58/
/−0.42
0.57/0.40
7. I get enough information about happenings in the classroom2
0.55/
0.41/
8. It is important to know about my children’s memory lapses and delays via digital communication2
0.51/
0.29/
9. It is important to know about my child’s conflicts via digital communication/It is important to inform parents about pupils’ conflicts2
0.40/
0.24/0.999
10. I get enough information about my child’s strengths/I can give parents sufficient information about their child’s strengths2
−0.85/−0.85
0.83/0.69
11. I get enough information about my child’s successes/I can give sufficient information about my students’ successes2
−0.80/−0.88
0.80/0.68
12. Teachers’ digital communication is encouraging to my child3
0.41/
−0.51/
0.71/
13. School sends overlapping digital messages1
0.56/0.82
0.29/0.60
14. Digital communication involves misunderstandings with teacher/with parents1
0.56/0.49
0.43/0.40
1Epstein’s dimension clarity and readability of digital communication (Table 1). 2Epstein’s dimension informativity, frequency, and effectivity of digital communication. 3Epstein’s dimension quality of digital communication.
