Assessment of digital competencies in higher education students: development and validation of a measurement scale

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dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidad Estatal de Milagro
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidad de Las Americas - Chile
dc.contributor.authorMejias-Acosta, Agustín
dc.contributor.authorRegnault, Mayra D'Armas
dc.contributor.authorVargas-Cano, Eduardo
dc.contributor.authorCardenas-Cobo, Jesennia
dc.contributor.authorVidal-Silva, Cristian
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-22T02:48:26Z
dc.date.available2025-04-22T02:48:26Z
dc.date.issued2024-12-04
dc.description.abstractDigital 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.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work results from the research project "Evaluation of Digital Competencies in Higher Education" of the University of Carabobo, Venezuela, in collaboration with the State University of Milagro, Ecuador. The authors declare that they received financial support from the Vice-Rectorate of Research and Graduate Studies of the State University of Milagro for the publication of this article.
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dc.identifier.citationFrontiers in Education, 9, 1497376. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1497376
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1497376
dc.identifier.issn2504-284X
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6288-1566
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6887-1836
dc.identifier.researcheridAFP-6161-2022
dc.identifier.researcheridABC-2093-2021
dc.identifier.rorhttps://ror.org/05sj7yp62
dc.identifier.rorhttps://ror.org/00gd7ns03
dc.identifier.rorhttps://ror.org/0166e9x11
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid57200571623
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid59476188600
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid59476291000
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid57217676075
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid58628874800
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.udla.cl/handle/udla/1748
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFRONTIERS MEDIA SA
dc.relation.fundingUniversity of Carabobo
dc.relation.fundingState University of Milagro
dc.relation.fundingVice-Rectorate of Research and Graduate Studies of the State University of Milagro
dc.relation.isindexedbyWeb of Science
dc.relation.issn2504-284X
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessrightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.sourceFRONTIERS IN EDUCATION
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1497376
dc.subjectdigital competencies
dc.subjectdigital skills
dc.subjectdigital literacy
dc.subjectuniversity students
dc.subjecthigher education
dc.subject.lcshEducación superior
dc.subject.lcshEstudiantes universitarios
dc.subject.oecd25.3 Ciencias de la Educación
dc.subject.oecd35.3.1 Educación General
dc.titleAssessment of digital competencies in higher education students: development and validation of a measurement scale
dc.typejournal article
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
dc.type.driverinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
oaire.citation.titleFRONTIERS IN EDUCATION
oaire.citation.volume9
udla.curacion.controljmvg
udla.odsODS 4: Educación de calidad
udla.oecd.area5 Ciencias Sociales
udla.oecd.discipline5.3.1 Educación General
udla.oecd.subarea5.3 Ciencias de la Educación

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