Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of a self-assessment tool or framework for measuring digital competence? The tools I have seen which look at digital literacy often focus on how to use tools whereas I am more interested in finding out about critical thinking of users, i.e. not how to post a comment but rather should they post a comment?
Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance!
Dear Neil Davie
The critical thinking test is to use fictitious arguments that take you away from the true topic of the conversation and force you to challenge a statement that you did not originally talk about. Example dialog:
- My dream is to go to Paris...
— You do not love their Homeland?
You just said that the dream of Paris, and eventually make excuses for the lack of love for the Motherland (author T. Pashchenko).
Dear Mr. Neil Davie,
Just a quick note to inform you that I read an interesting article about your issues.
It is Measuring Digital Competence and ICT Literacy: An Exploratory Study of In-Service English Language Teachers in the Context of Saudi Arabia by Ahmed Abdulteeef M. Al Khateeb.
Please find the article on web https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1164095.pdf
I hope that I have been of some help,
Yours sincerely,
Andrija Kozina
The Digital Competence Framework (DigComp 2.1) of the European Commission establishes five broad digital competence areas: information and data literacy, communication and collaboration, content creation, security, and problem solving. These five broad competences areas are discriminated in specific competences, giving a total of twenty one competences. The framework defines eight levels of proficiency for the practice of these competences, leading to 21x8=168 descriptors of success. To measure the level of digital competence, one uses these descriptors. The levels of proficiency express cognitive level, degree of complexity, and autonomy in the practice of the competences, and are inspired in Bloom’s taxonomy and in the European Qualification Framework (EQF). I confess I am not too keen on these over-detailed frameworks, but sometimes they can inspire lighter approaches. You can find DigComp 2.1 at
http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC106281/web-digcomp2.1pdf_(online).pdf
Thank you very much for the information and links Antonio Dias de Figueiredo and @andrijakozina that sounds like something I can maybe work with!
This's my pleasure to gain your opinion too, it couldn't answer your thread. I'm gonna conduct my thesis to measure levels of digital literacy. Before the conducting, I have tried to indicate what difference between Digital literacy and Digital competence, so I found that digital literacy is a set of skills which is a part of digital competence (knowledge, skill, attitude). Am I correct?
By the way, I'm using frameworks of Jisc and DigComp 2.1.
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/digcomp/digital-competence-framework
EU information
How do we determine the level of digital competence using a multiple choice questionnaire? I used mean percentage score for each student. Is there a way how to interpret it in terms of level of competence?
From a sociocultural perspective, the question is concerning. If we elevate our conceptualisation of multimodal applications beyond the level of the sentence and embed it in ways of being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology), then, "digital competence" cannot (solely) be quantified? An evaluation of the phenomena would appear to require critical analysis of the interplay between students'/users ontologies and how these weave with the targeted tool and learning outcomes.
You can try the DIGISOC . You can consult Peart, M.T., Gutiérrez-Esteban, P. & Cubo-Delgado, S. Development of the digital and socio-civic skills (DIGISOC) questionnaire. Education Tech Research Dev 68, 3327–3351 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-020-09824-y