Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin Dijital Okuryazarlık Düzeylerinin Belirlenmesi (Determining the Digital Literacy Levels of Secondary School Students)

Abstract

This research aims to examine the digital literacy skills of secondary school students in terms of various variables. The research was carried out in the survey model, which is one of the quantitative research methods. The study group of the research consists of 632 students studying in 5th, 6th, and 7th grades in 5 different secondary schools from the lower, middle, and upper socioeconomic levels in the central district of Gaziantep in the 2020-2021 academic year. Personal Information Form developed by the researcher and Digital Literacy Scale developed by Pala (2019) were used as data collection tools in the research. The data obtained during the analysis of the data were analyzed using the SPSS 22.0 program, and non-parametric tests such as the Mann-Whitney U test and the Kruskal Wallis H test were used since the descriptive statistics and the distribution of the obtained data did not show normality. As a result of the analysis of the data obtained, it was determined that the Digital Literacy Scale scores of the students differed significantly according to gender, grade level, availability of internet connection at home, availability of computer or tablet at home, frequency of internet connection. According to the state of Internet usage purposes, no significant differences were determined among the data obtained from the Digital Literacy Scale. Suggestions were made in line with the results obtained from the study