Identifiying Digital Literacy of High School Students: A Case of Hendek

This research aims to identify digital literacy level of 10 th gradehigh school students’ and determine those levels in terms of differentvariables. In this study, the research method was performed according to therelational comparing model as a comparison type. The research populationconsists of 94...

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Main Authors: Kaan Arık, Mübin Kıyıcı
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sakarya University 2019-04-01
Series:Sakarya University Journal of Education
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/712639
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Summary:This research aims to identify digital literacy level of 10 th gradehigh school students’ and determine those levels in terms of differentvariables. In this study, the research method was performed according to therelational comparing model as a comparison type. The research populationconsists of 948 students from all high schools in the province of Hendek atSakarya in 2016-2017 education season year. And the sampling consisted of 394students from 5 different high schools. Digital Literacy Scale that translatedto Turkish by Hamutoğlu, Güngören, Uyanık and Erdoğan (2017) was used in thisresearch for data collection tool. Personal information section was added byreseacher to scale. Standard deviation, frequency analysis, arithmeticaverages, descriptive statistical data, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)and independent sample t-test techniques was used to analyze research. Thelevel of high school students' digital literacy; doesn’t vary according tohaving a personal mobile Internet connection for regular use, the type ofuniversity exam scores gets into university exam score, family economic income,active time period on Internet. But gender, having a personal computer forregular use varies according to technical sub-dimensional and active timeperiod on personal computer varies according to technical, cognitive and socialdimensions.
ISSN:2146-7455