Measuring Digital Literacy in Sidoarjo Regency

Measuring Collaborative Digital Literacy

Experiments in Digital Literacy

Having digital literacy requires more than just the ability to use software or to operate a digital device; it includes a large variety of complex skills such as cognitive, motoric, sociological, and emotional that users need to have in order to use digital environments effectively. A conceptual model that was recently described by the authors suggests that digital literacy comprises five major...

Measuring the Effectiveness of Financial Literacy Programs in Ghana

This paper explores the effectiveness of financial literacy programs. It further seeks to establish the relationship between financial literacy and certain demographic characteristics. This study adopted a correlational research design as the framework to examine the relationship between variables without determining cause and effect. Data were randomly collected from 235 petty traders in Kumas...

On Measuring Literacy

This paper presents a new approach to evaluating the aggregate literacy level in a country or region. The resulting ‘effective literacy’ measure takes into account the intrahousehold externality arising from the presence of a literate member. A simple and natural axiomatic characterization is provided along with an empirical illustration using Indian data.

Perspectives on Media Literacy, Digital Literacy and Information Literacy

The cultural landscape poses different challenges for teachers. Beyond developing reading and writing skills, it is necessary to emerge in the digital culture and master the different codes of different languages. In this context, media education studies discuss the educational possibilities of interpreting, problematizing, and producing different kinds of texts in critical and creative ways, t...