Design and evaluation of a questionnaire about digital competence in primary education students

Abstract

Digital competence is a recurring theme of both educational research and, above all, educational technology. However, there is a gap when such competence aims to be analysed in each stage of primary education. Thus, this article describes the process of elaboration and validation of a questionnaire that tries to analyse digital competence in Primary Education students in Andalusia. For this purpose, a twenty-eight items scale was designed in order to be applied to 365 third level students in the previously mentioned educational stage, selected in such a probabilistic way and bearing in mind certain inclusion criteria during the academic course of 2014 - 2015. A reliability analysis was carried out by using Cronbach’s alpha (,906), and two halves (,920 and ,846), as well as content validity (expert judgement) and of construct (factor analysis by the matrix of the main components and Varimax rotation), being the latter the one which has provided a grouping of items around six dimensions.