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Is It All About Frequency?

Students’ Digital Competence and Tablet Use

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New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'19 2019)

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Abstract

Being digitally competent requires appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes towards the use of digital technologies for different aspects of today’s society. The role Education plays in equipping students with such competence is increasingly important, but despite the growing number of studies on the topic, little is known about the impact the use of digital technologies has on students’ digital competence. This paper presents and discusses findings regarding the impact of tablet use on the development of lower secondary students’ digital competence. A retrospective evaluation was made resorting to a questionnaire applied to students from two schools. Findings suggest that the frequency of tablet use seems to explain the development of digital competence as well as students’ perceptions of their digital competence proficiency level.

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Notes

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    The name of the competence areas and competences was updated in version [3].

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    The number of proficiency levels was updated to 8 in version [4].

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    Only available in version [2].

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    Proficiency levels form version [2] were used, as this was the version available when instruments for the data collection were developed.

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    Due to the priority of the multiplication relatively to a sum, the outside parentheses are redundant, but they are represented for visual clarity of the formula.

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This work is supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under grant number SFRH/BPD/100367/2014 and project UID/CED/00194/2019.

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    Margarida Lucas, António Moreira & Nilza Costa

  2. CINTESIS, University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Pedro Bem-haja

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  3. Faculdade de Engenharia/LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Lucas, M., Bem-haja, P., Moreira, A., Costa, N. (2019). Is It All About Frequency?. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'19 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 932. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_23

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