DEVELOP AND VALIDATE OF ICT COMPETENCY FOR LECTURERS AT THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LAOS USING THE DELPHI TECHNIQUE

ICT has become an indispensable tool for modern educators, by integrating ICT in the classroom has brought significant improvements.The Delphi technique is widely used and recognized as a research methodology for gathering opinions from a group of experts through a series of questionnaires.This study intends to gattering a consensus opinion from the experts on developing a valid, reliable and evaluate the level of agreement on the ICT competency standard for lecturers at the National University of Laos.The Delphi technique was used to establish the content validity of the preliminary instrument by 17 experts, and connoisseurship meetings were conducted with 10 experts to examine the degree of the agreement on the ICT competency standard.The quantitative data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) v. 26 and Google Spread Sheet to obtain the median, interquartile range, mean, and standard deviation.The developed competency standard using the Delphi technique is valid and reliable, with four domains and 44 indicators.Additionally, the overall degree of agreement was strongly agreed on the ICT competency standard.