Sources of Pupils’ ICT Knowledge and Skills - Differentiating Factors

• Authors: Eunika Baron-Polańczyk

Abstracts

EN

The article presents a part of diagnostic and correlative research of quantitative and qualitative character, locating pupils’ information skills in the use of ICT in the context of new technology trends and the accompanying civilizational changes. The considered issues seek answers to the question on the sources of knowledge and skills acquired by pupils in the field of using new technologies. A diagnostic survey (questionnaire and interview) and statistical methods were used. 2,510 pupils were examined and it was established that: 1) numerous pupils’ indications, obtained through an open question, allowed for distinguishing as many as 14 categories of sources of information; 2) The pupils mainly locate the sources of ICT knowledge and skills in informal education (61.9%), by the same token diminishing the weight of organised, formal education and the influence of didactic institutions (38.1%); 3) the calculation of differentiating factors revealed statistically significant differences between the sources of ICT knowledge and skills in relation to gender, stage of learning, and place of learning.

Keywords

EN

ICT in education; diagnostic and correlative research; information sources; knowledge building; differentiating factors

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 56
• Pages: 29-40

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Eunika Baron-Polańczyk

• University of Zielona Góra

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.19.56.2.02

Biblioteka Nauki

1967718