Assessing digital competence and its relationship with the socioeconomic level of Chilean university students

Silva-Quiroz, Juan; Morales-Morgado, Erla Mariela

doi:10.1186/s41239-022-00346-6

International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education

Table 4 Digital Competence level by type of establishment. Source: Prepared by the author

From: Assessing digital competence and its relationship with the socioeconomic level of Chilean university students

	Municipal		Private Subsidized		Private
Digital competency area and indicator	Mean	Standard deviation	Mean	Standard deviation	Mean	Standard deviation
1. Information and digital literacy	0.460	0.169	0.484	0.159	0.532	0.153
Navigate, search, and filter data, information, and digital content	0.301	0.267	0.329	0.275	0.368	0.250
Evaluate data, information, and digital content	0.500	0.283	0.538	0.262	0.541	0.253
Digital data, information, and content management	0.579	0.233	0.595	0.218	0.687	0.210
2. Online communication and collaboration	0.566	0.136	0.587	0.127	0.620	0.131
Interact through digital technologies	0.484	0.294	0.507	0.282	0.611	0.231
Sharing through digital technologies	0.625	0.241	0.655	0.254	0.666	0.247
Citizen participation through digital technologies	0.644	0.258	0.686	0.255	0.736	0.227
Collaboration through digital technologies	0.449	0.289	0.469	0.267	0.451	0.270
Online behavior	0.729	0.215	0.736	0.216	0.763	0.181
Digital identity management	0.464	0.249	0.466	0.238	0.493	0.315
3. Digital content creation	0.448	0.142	0.457	0.143	0.477	0.165
Content development	0.582	0.294	0.592	0.269	0.590	0.277
Integrating and re-elaborating digital content	0.533	0.243	0.551	0.257	0.576	0.281
Copyright and intellectual property licenses	0.389	0.267	0.414	0.292	0.409	0.285
Programming	0.288	0.245	0.272	0.248	0.333	0.275
4. Network security	0.715	0.150	0.739	0.140	0.767	0.113
Device protection	0.800	0.246	0.817	0.224	0.854	0.205
Personal data and privacy protection	0.737	0.263	0.751	0.241	0.798	0.214
Health and wellbeing protection	0.653	0.243	0.675	0.241	0.715	0.227
Environmental protection	0.607	0.233	0.714	0.220	0.701	0.185
5. Problem solving	0.454	0.155	0.481	0.162	0.517	0.175
Technical problem solving	0.584	0.238	0.572	0.244	0.569	0.237
Identifying technological needs and responses	0.458	0.261	0.510	0.290	0.527	0.298
Creative use of digital technology	0.259	0.260	0.307	0.278	0.284	0.283
Identifying gaps in digital skills	0.515	0.286	0.534	0.271	0.687	0.286
Total Scale of Digital Competence	0.535	0.101	0.556	0.093	0.589	0.098

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