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The Digital Competence of Pre-Service Educators: The Influence of Personal Variables
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Materia
Digital competence
Higher education
ICT
Influence of variables
Fecha de publicación
2022
Editor
MDPI
Citación
Cabezas-González, M., Casillas-Martín, S., & García-Peñalvo, F.J. (2021). The digital competence of pre-service educators: influence of personal variables. Sustainability, 13(4), 2318. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042318
Resumen
[EN] Currently, 21st century students need competences that enable them to adapt to a new
type of individual information and individual knowledge relationship, and, therefore, the education
system should contemplate new ways for learners to develop in accordance with this so-called
information and knowledge society. One of special importance is so-called digital competency. This
article presents the results of a research study to determine the influence that the variables of gender,
age, and academic degree have on the acquisition of digital competence by pre-service educators,
with a sample of 370 students from different education degrees from the University of Salamanca
(Spain). A quantitative methodology was used, employing a non-experimental method and the
electronic survey technique to collect information on the dimensions of knowledge, as well as the
management of and attitude towards information and communication technologies (ICTs). Data
were analyzed inferentially from a comparison of means using nonparametric tests. This analysis
was completed with the incorporation of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves, which
allowed us to graphically verify the differences between the subsamples and thus compare the
different groups in relation to the proposed dimensions. The main conclusion was that the three
variables studied can be considered as influential, though not determinant, in the acquisition of
digital competency.
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10.3390/su13042318
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