%0 Journal Article %1 gui2011digital %A Gui, Marco %A Argentin, Gianluca %D 2011 %J New Media & Society %K digitalnatives education %N 6 %P 963-980 %R 10.1177/1461444810389751 %T Digital skills of internet natives: Different forms of digital literacy in a random sample of northern Italian high school students. %U http://nms.sagepub.com/content/13/6/963.abstract %V 13 %X This article outlines the main results and methodological challenges of a large-scale survey on actual digital skills. A test covering three main dimensions of digital literacy (theoretical, operational and evaluation skills) was administered to a random sample of 65 third-year high school classes, producing data on 980 students. Items include knowledge questions, situation-based questions and tasks to be performed online. A Rasch-type model was used to score the results. In agreement with the literature, the sample performed better in operational skills, while showing a particularly poor performance regarding evaluation skills (although for this dimension the test shows reliability issues). Through a robust regression analysis we investigate if a skills divide based on ascriptive differences, gender and family cultural background, exists among the students. It emerges that cultural background has a significant effect, which is stronger on operational skills, while gender shows a more definite impact on theoretical knowledge.

@article{gui2011digital, abstract = {This article outlines the main results and methodological challenges of a large-scale survey on actual digital skills. A test covering three main dimensions of digital literacy (theoretical, operational and evaluation skills) was administered to a random sample of 65 third-year high school classes, producing data on 980 students. Items include knowledge questions, situation-based questions and tasks to be performed online. A Rasch-type model was used to score the results. In agreement with the literature, the sample performed better in operational skills, while showing a particularly poor performance regarding evaluation skills (although for this dimension the test shows reliability issues). Through a robust regression analysis we investigate if a skills divide based on ascriptive differences, gender and family cultural background, exists among the students. It emerges that cultural background has a significant effect, which is stronger on operational skills, while gender shows a more definite impact on theoretical knowledge.}, added-at = {2015-10-16T01:39:49.000+0200}, author = {Gui, Marco and Argentin, Gianluca}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24d6773fc215bd6f6036f75c7c8d4727a/kajufalc}, description = {Digital skills of internet natives: Different forms of digital literacy in a random sample of northern Italian high school students}, doi = {10.1177/1461444810389751}, eprint = {http://nms.sagepub.com/content/13/6/963.full.pdf+html}, interhash = {47c3bf1b369870c0fca3756ce06d4f01}, intrahash = {4d6773fc215bd6f6036f75c7c8d4727a}, journal = {New Media & Society}, keywords = {digitalnatives education}, number = 6, pages = {963-980}, timestamp = {2015-10-16T01:39:49.000+0200}, title = {Digital skills of internet natives: Different forms of digital literacy in a random sample of northern Italian high school students.}, url = {http://nms.sagepub.com/content/13/6/963.abstract}, volume = 13, year = 2011 }