DATA CLEANING FOR THE EVALUATION OF VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT SUCCESS AMONG TEACHERS
Keywords:
Data Cleaning, Data Preparation, Data Screening, E-Learning, Information System Success, Virtual Learning EnvironmentsAbstract
This article explains the data cleaning procedures for the evaluation of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) success among Malaysian teachers. Data cleaning is essential step in any research to ensure that the produced data is usable, valid and reliable for testing the research framework. The data collection of this study was done among the teachers across four states of Perlis, Kedah, Penang and Perak. During the data cleaning procedures, seven main issues have been considered which include missing data, outliers, linearity, normality, homoscedasticity, multicollinearity and common method variance. As a result, a dataset consists of 643 good attributes’ cases were produced. All the assumptions for multivariate analysis had been met. Besides, this dataset has been proved to be robust and ready for further statistical examinations