Adapted 15-item Internet Skills Scale

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Evidence · 3 claims (3 for) · 2 studies (2 associational), q2 · 0 of 2 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study

Description

A culturally adapted self-report scale measuring operational, formal/navigation, and informational/evaluation Internet skills among Latin American college students.

Components

• Four-domain model of Internet skills (operational, formal, information, strategic): The article adopts van Deursen and van Dijk's taxonomy of Internet skills, in which "Operational skills consist of the actions that allow a person to use digital tools", "Formal skills refer to navigation and orientation in structures specific to digital media", information skills concern searching, comparing, assessing and integrating information, and strategic skills involve using the Internet to achieve personal, professional, or social goals. The study adapts and validates the self-report scale for the first three domains in a Latin American college sample, excluding the strategic dimension because three items could not be culturally adapted. (Burin et al. (2018))

Claims

• Subscales of the adapted Internet Skills Scale show acceptable internal consistency, lowest for the Operational subscale [+W]
• Operational skills correlate moderately with Internet habitual use, while navigation and evaluation skills correlate only with informational activities [+W]
• Exploratory factor analysis in the pilot stage supported a four-factor solution, with three items removed (a weak loading, a cross-loading, and a low item–total correlation with duplicated content) [+W]

Related Products and Programmes

• AI adaptive learning environment perception scale (15 items, three dimensions)
• Senior Digital Literacy Evaluation (SDLE) instrument

Key Sources

• Burin, D. I., Irrazabal, N., Injoque Ricle, I., Saux, G., & Barreyro, J. P. (2018). Self-reported internet skills, previous knowledge and working memory in text comprehension in E-learning. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 15:18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-018-0099-9

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title	Adapted 15-item Internet Skills Scale
description	A culturally adapted self-report scale measuring operational, formal/navigation, and informational/evaluation Internet skills among Latin American college students.
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