Assessment of digital competencies in higher education students: development and validation of a measurement scale
Digital competencies represent students' ability to use technology and digital media interactively to enhance their learning experiences. Given their growing importance, there is a need to develop instruments that can be used in different contexts to measure them. This research aims to develop...
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| author | Agustín Mejías-Acosta Mayra D'Armas Regnault Eduardo Vargas-Cano Jesennia Cárdenas-Cobo Cristian Vidal-Silva |
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| description | Digital competencies represent students' ability to use technology and digital media interactively to enhance their learning experiences. Given their growing importance, there is a need to develop instruments that can be used in different contexts to measure them. This research aims to develop and validate an instrument to measure digital competencies in university students and identify the dimensions that characterize it. Based on a literature review, a scale is designed and validated with students from a Venezuelan university. As a result, a model of 22 variables grouped into four dimensions is presented: Communication and digital security, Access to digital content management, Creation of digital content and use of digital media, and Digital empathy, which can be applied in similar environments. The results of the tests demonstrate the scale's psychometric properties in terms of both validity and reliability. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-636f4f0b367e4a2f80368efd293c1fc22025-08-20T02:18:44ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Education2504-284X2024-12-01910.3389/feduc.2024.14973761497376Assessment of digital competencies in higher education students: development and validation of a measurement scaleAgustín Mejías-Acosta0Mayra D'Armas Regnault1Eduardo Vargas-Cano2Jesennia Cárdenas-Cobo3Cristian Vidal-Silva4Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Carabobo, VenezuelaUniversidad Estatal de Milagro, Milagro, Guayas, EcuadorUniversidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Carabobo, VenezuelaUniversidad Estatal de Milagro, Milagro, Guayas, EcuadorFacultad de Ingeniería y Negocios, Universidad de Las Américas, Providencia, Santiago, ChileDigital competencies represent students' ability to use technology and digital media interactively to enhance their learning experiences. Given their growing importance, there is a need to develop instruments that can be used in different contexts to measure them. This research aims to develop and validate an instrument to measure digital competencies in university students and identify the dimensions that characterize it. Based on a literature review, a scale is designed and validated with students from a Venezuelan university. As a result, a model of 22 variables grouped into four dimensions is presented: Communication and digital security, Access to digital content management, Creation of digital content and use of digital media, and Digital empathy, which can be applied in similar environments. The results of the tests demonstrate the scale's psychometric properties in terms of both validity and reliability.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2024.1497376/fulldigital competenciesdigital skillsdigital literacyuniversity studentshigher education |
| spellingShingle | Agustín Mejías-Acosta Mayra D'Armas Regnault Eduardo Vargas-Cano Jesennia Cárdenas-Cobo Cristian Vidal-Silva Assessment of digital competencies in higher education students: development and validation of a measurement scale Frontiers in Education digital competencies digital skills digital literacy university students higher education |
| title | Assessment of digital competencies in higher education students: development and validation of a measurement scale |
| title_full | Assessment of digital competencies in higher education students: development and validation of a measurement scale |
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| title_short | Assessment of digital competencies in higher education students: development and validation of a measurement scale |
| title_sort | assessment of digital competencies in higher education students development and validation of a measurement scale |
| topic | digital competencies digital skills digital literacy university students higher education |
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