Hargittai, 2005: Survey Measures of Web-Oriented Digital Literacy

Topic:

Results suggest that some composite variables of survey knowledge items are better predictors of people’s actual digital literacy based on performance tests than are measures of users’ self-perceived abilities, a proxy traditionally used in the literature on the topic.

scale validation, 100 internet users in a nnew jersey county

Constructs in this publication:

Construct	Cites	Category	Questions given?	Content validity	Pretests	Response type	Notes
Digital Literacy	NEW		yes	None	compared to observed behaviour	various

This publication is cited by the following publications:

• Hargittai, 2012: Web-Use Skills

Citation:

Eszter Hargittai. Survey Measures of Web-Oriented Digital Literacy. Social Science Computer Review, 23(3):371–379, August 2005. doi:10.1177/0894439305275911.

Bibtex

@article{hargittai_survey_2005,
 author = {Hargittai, Eszter},
 doi = {10.1177/0894439305275911},
 issn = {0894-4393, 1552-8286},
 journal = {Social Science Computer Review},
 language = {en},
 month = {August},
 number = {3},
 pages = {371-379},
 title = {Survey {{Measures}} of {{Web}}-{{Oriented Digital Literacy}}},
 volume = {23},
 year = {2005}
}

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