Digitálna generácia a výsledky testovania jej digitálnych zručností
Digital Generation and the Results of its Digital Competences Testing

Summary/Abstract: The presented paper brings a comparison of digital skills test results of students of the Faculty of Education, University of Presov within their undergraduate training with the aim to estimate the level of their digital skills in five defined domains. The IT Fitness Test 2015 consisting of 25 items was used as the measure of the target skills. The sample included 532 students in 2016 and 212 students in 2017 in bachelor and master study programs. The paper provides an interpretation of the selected research findings (total mean scores and mean scores for the given domains). The results of digital skills testing point out the tendency of the overall overestimation of Digital Natives Skills. The demands of pedagogues as well as teaching practice itself give rise of new challenges for students. Within the preparation process of the new study programs accreditations it is therefore necessary to modify the curricula of IT-oriented subjects and include further activities allowing for the development of the lacking “Digital Skills”, since these are needed not only for students’ own study but also due to the increasing demands related to the use of digital technologies in primary and pre-primary education.

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