Informational digital competence in Mexican adolescents: sex-based self-assessment analysis in the post-pandemic context
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| Format: | artículo |
| Estat: | Versión publicada |
| Data de publicació: | 2025 |
| Descripció: | Objective. To identify how adolescents perceive themselves in terms of their digital competence in managing information in education. Methodology. An online questionnaire with Likert scale questions and open-ended questions in the dimensions of self-assessment of digital competence in information management, retrospective self-assessment, intersection with problem-solving competence, technical skills, and strategic competence. The representative sample was composed of students from a public high school. Discussion. Most students at the end of the pandemic feel confident in their digital competence in managing information for education; female students report less confidence in handling this competence compared to male students, with more stability in negative and neutral self-assessment; self-assessment results reveal three groups: positive (80.5%), neutral (14.5%), and negative (5%); both sexes reported growth in information management competence during the pandemic, with males retrospectively self-assessing higher than females. Recommendations. It is suggested to include informational competence training in the curriculum, develop differentiated support strategies, encourage reflective self-assessment, and establish continuous assessments in educational and workplace settings. |
| Pais: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Institution: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Idioma: | Español Inglés Portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/20086 |
| Accés en línia: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/EDUCARE/article/view/20086 |
| Paraula clau: | Competência digital informacional autoavaliação sexo adolescentes mexicanos ODS 4 educação de qualidade habilidades transferíveis ODS 8 trabalho dogno e crescimento económico impacto da mudança tecnológica Competencia digital informacional competencias transferibles educación de calidad impacto del cambio tecnológico población adolescente mexicana trabajo decente y crecimiento económico autoevaluación Informational digital competence self-assessment sex Mexican adolescents SDG 4 quality education transferable skills decent work and economic growth impact of technological change |