Digital literacy workshops ameliorate older adults' digital competence in both face-to-face and blended modalities¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q3
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Pre-post comparisons within each group showed the workshops ameliorated older adult digital competence in both the face-to-face and blended groups. → Martínez-Alcalá CI 2018

Evidence¶

Martínez-Alcalá CI 2018¶

Martínez-Alcalá CI, Rosales-Lagarde A, Alonso-Lavernia MÁ, Ramírez-Salvador JÁ, Jiménez-Rodríguez B, Cepeda-Rebollar RM, López-Noguerola JS, Bautista-Díaz ML and Agis-Juárez RA (2018) Digital Inclusion in Older Adults: A Comparison Between Face-to-Face and Blended Digital Literacy Workshops. Front. ICT 5:21. https://doi.org/10.3389/fict.2018.00021

q3 · i? · causal · r1

Within-group pre-post comparisons using Wilcoxon tests in a study of 98 older adults (61 FFG, 37 BLG) showed significant improvement in both groups; the article reports the z statistics but no effect size. Both groups "had low and low-medium competence at the beginning of the study."

"When pre-post comparisons were made within each group with Wilcoxon tests, it was evident that the workshops ameliorated the older adult digital competence in both groups (z = − 6.79, p < 0.0001; z = − 5.30, p < 0.0001, for the FFG and the BLG, respectively)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Digital Literacy — outcome: instruction changes it

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