Analysing Moderators and Critical Factors That Affect Early Childhood Education with the Usage of Touchscreen Contrivances: A Hybrid Fuzzy AHP-Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach

Autor/inn/en	Kukreja, Vinay; Jain, Anuj Kumar; Singh, Amitoj; Kaushal, Rajesh Kumar; Aggarwal, Arun
Titel	Analysing Moderators and Critical Factors That Affect Early Childhood Education with the Usage of Touchscreen Contrivances: A Hybrid Fuzzy AHP-Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach
Quelle	In: Education and Information Technologies, 28 (2023) 5, S.5621-5650 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Aggarwal, Arun)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-2357
DOI	10.1007/s10639-022-11379-9
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Technology Uses in Education; Educational Technology; Handheld Devices; Age; Computer Oriented Programs; Electronic Learning; Usability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Unterrichtsmedien; Alter; Lebensalter; Computerprogramm
Abstract	Context: In the children's education process, not only children but parents, educators, and teachers are using touchscreen technology-enabled contrivances for better quality of life. Every stakeholder has their perspective on the usage of touchscreen contrivances. A lot of moderators and critical factors affect this perception. Objective: To analyse the moderators and critical factors that affect early childhood education. Method: A comprehensive literature survey and focused group discussion members have finalized six moderators and ten critical factors that affect early childhood education. A hybrid fuzzy AHP-fuzzy TOPSIS has been used to rank identified critical factors. Fuzzy AHP is used to get the weights of the moderators and fuzzy TOPSIS used these weights to rank the critical factors. Results: The moderator 'children age' is having the highest normalized weight (0.211) and the 'screen size' is having the lowest normalized weight (0.106). The two most critical factors that ranked first and second are 'app features and content' and 'applied pedagogical approach' having closeness coefficients of 0.9713 and 0.9594. Potential future scope: The results of the study will help the teachers, parents, and educators to focus on the highly ranked factors which will directly or indirectly improve the children's education. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01