Development of the digital and socio-civic skills (DIGISOC) questionnaire
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Development of the digital and socio‑civic skills (DIGISOC) questionnaire Mark Thomas Peart1 · Prudencia Gutiérrez‑Esteban1 · Sixto Cubo‑Delgado1 Accepted: 8 September 2020 © Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2020
Abstract Recognizing that digital citizenship includes the capacity to foster growth opportunities and also, can help to minimize risks and divides from the use of digital technology is essential for today’s society and education. This on-going study intends to identify core aspects that help or hinder youth participation and contribute on how to educate youth and improve on digital citizenship through the development of digital and socio-civic skills. The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable instrument that invites young people, aged 16–35, to assess their digital and socio-civic skills. The development process of the instrument involves a literature review, designing and constructing the dimensions and items of the questionnaire and finally, assessing the content and construct validity as well as the reliability of the instrument. We have obtained an instrument in English and Spanish with acceptable scientific guarantees; including statistical data regarding a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and favorable reliability coefficients using cronbach’s alpha. Keywords Questionnaire · Digital literacy · Digital skills · Socio-civic skills · Digital citizenship
Introduction The world has fallen into a time of rising inequalities and enormous disparities of opportunity (United Nations General Assembly, 2015). The past decade has seen a wave of civic uprisings and social unrest, where the use digital technologies and social networks have been key aspects in fostering civic engagement (Castells, 2012). These uprisings were due to the growing social stratification and a popular desire for more democratic, social and equal societies. The Arab spring and other grassroot-social movements such as occupy wall street, 15M movement in Spain and social media campaigns such as #BlackLivesMatter, * Mark Thomas Peart [email protected] Prudencia Gutiérrez‑Esteban [email protected] Sixto Cubo‑Delgado [email protected] 1
Faculty of Education, University of Extremadura, Av. Elvas s/n., Badajoz, Spain
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#FridaysForFuture, #FreePatrick and the #MeToo feminist movement, have represented new ways of engaging and participating via the use of digital technologies and social networks to influence policy. All of these social, political and civic phenomena share common traits, such as being mediated by young people with a high level of digital and socio-civic skills. Most undertake activities like obtaining, critically evaluating and using information and data, by creating and/or sharing digital content, collaborating with others towards a common goal. All of which are guided by strong democratic, civic and social values. Today’s youth are becoming increasingly engaged as creators and contributors of online content (Lenhart, 2015; Nacu, Martin,
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