Higher digital competence is positively associated with students' digital informal learning and academic engagement¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

Reading the evidence codes

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This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q2 i? Three reviewed studies confirmed a positive association between university students' digital competence and digital informal learning (DIL). → Zhao Yu 2021 q2 i? Kim et al. (2019) indicated digital competence and digital readiness had positive and significant effects on academic engagement. → Zhao Yu 2021 (2)

Evidence¶

Zhao Yu 2021¶

Zhao Yu, Pinto Llorente Ana María, Sánchez Gómez María Cruz. (2021). Digital competence in higher education research: A systematic literature review. Computers & Education, 168, 104212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2021.104212

q2 · i? · review · r2

Review synthesis of the four articles exploring digital competence's impact on students' achievement; the review attributes this association to He and Li (2019), He and Zhu (2017), and He et al. (2018), and notes the article reports no pooled effect size.

"students with higher level of digital competence tended to more get involved in DIL"

Zhao Yu 2021 (2)¶

q2 · i? · review · r2

Review reports, attributing to Kim et al. (2019), that within a university e-learning context digital competence and digital readiness showed positive and significant effects on academic engagement; no effect size is printed in the review.

"Kim et al. (2019) indicated that digital competence and digital readiness had positive and significant effects on academic engagement."

Discussion¶

Higher education students' digital competence has a positive effect on their digital informal learning — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
Digital informal learning has a positive effect on higher education students' academic performance in a cross-sectional SEM study — related
Digital informal learning partially mediates the relationship between digital competence and academic performance — related
The hypothesised three-variable structural model fits the survey data well across printed fit indices — related
AI literacy directly and positively predicts learning engagement among university students — related
Higher education students' digital competence has a positive effect on their academic performance — related

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`title`	`Higher digital competence is positively associated with students' digital informal learning and academic engagement`
`description`	`Higher digital competence is positively associated with students' digital informal learning and academic engagement`
`status`	`review`
`evidence_strength`	`weak`
`newest_evidence`	`2021`
`generated`	by `process:wiki-ingest` on `2026-10-29`
`trust`	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
`sources`	2 — `zhao-yu-2021`, `zhao-yu-2021-2`

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