Design, Validation and Implementation of a Questionnaire to Assess Teenagers’ Digital Competence in the Area of Communication in Digital Environments

Ana Iglesias-Rodríguez, Azucena Hernández-Martín, Yolanda Martín-González and Patricia Herráez-Corredera
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Ana Iglesias-Rodríguez: Department of Didactics, Organization and Research Methods, Faculty of Education, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Azucena Hernández-Martín: Department of Didactics, Organization and Research Methods, Faculty of Education, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Yolanda Martín-González: Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Translation and Documentation, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Patricia Herráez-Corredera: Department of Didactics, Organization and Research Methods, Faculty of Education, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 12, 1-18

Abstract: This article describes the process of design, validation, and implementation (N = 609) of a questionnaire drawn up ad hoc to assess the digital competence of compulsory education students (ages 11 to 13) in the area of communication. The test measures students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the six competences that make up the area of communication, as established in the Framework for the Development and Knowledge of Digital Competence in Europe (DigComp): interacting through new technologies, sharing of information and content, online citizen participation, collaboration through digital technologies, netiquette, and digital identity management. The purposes of the study are to design and validate an instrument to assess compulsory education students’ digital competences in the area of communication based on their knowledge, skills, and attitudes and to analyse such instrument’s psychometric characteristics with special emphasis on its reliability and validity. The method used consisted of the implementation of various psychometric validation techniques and the analysis of the results based on statistical descriptions. Items show adequate discrimination and difficulty indices. Validity was guaranteed through expert judgement and factorial analysis of the test. The conclusion stresses the pressing need for education centres to provide students with adequate educational-communicative training.

Keywords: communicative competence; validity; reliability; compulsory education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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