Characterization of the digital literacy states of secondary school students in 5 schoolsof the department of Cesar
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2023
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The purpose of this research is to examine the digital literacy skills of high school students in terms of various variables. The research was conducted using survey - based tools and a quantitative research method. The rersearch study group is made up of 632 high school students who are in grades 6, 7 and 8 in 5 schools of low, medium and high socioeconomic levels in the academic year 2020 - 2021 in the department of Cesar, as data analysis tools in a Digital Literacy Scale developed by the researches, and the data obtained were analyzed using the SPSS 22,0 program and descriptive statistics and non parametric test such as the Mann - Whitnney U test and the Kruskal Wallis H test were used, since the distribution of the data obtained did not show normality. As a result of the analysis of the data obtained, it was determined that the Digital Literacy Scale scores of the students differed significantly acordding to their gender, school grade, internet connection at home, presence of computer or tablet at home and frequency of internet acces, and connection, acoording to the purposes of internet use, no significant difference could be determined between the data obtain from the Digital Literacy Scale, suggestions were made in acoordance with the results obtained from the study.
Keywords: Education, Digital literacy, Secondary levels, Social studies