Attitudes of Czech College Students Toward Digital Literacy and Their Technical Aids in Times of COVID-19

Authors

  • Katarína Krpálková Krelová Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic
  • Kateřina Berková Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic
  • Pavel Krpálek Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic
  • Andrea Kubišová College of Polytechnics Jihlava

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v11i4.20821

Keywords:

education, digital literacy, form of education, economic and humanities stud-ies

Abstract


At present, when the whole world is struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic, it is important to address both the issue of flexibility when educating the younger generation and the issue of further professional education, which contributes to the development of competences that are directly relevant to life and everyday activities in the 21st century. The common denominator of these competences is digital competence. It is the aspect of education that is of primary and crucial importance for digital literacy development. This re-search study aims at establishing the availability of digital media and atti-tudes towards one’s own technical aids and digital literacy among students of two higher education institutions in the Czech Republic. Empirical research involved 1233 college students. The set research hypotheses were tested with a questionnaire-based survey using the Likert scale. A cluster analysis was conducted in the SPSS program. In view of the ordinal nature of data, the nonparametric Mann–Whitney U test conducted at significance levels of 5% and 1% in SPSS was applied to test the dependence of competence self-assessment on the specialization of the higher education institutions/ study level/ study form. The research has unequivocally proven that digital literacy is influenced by education, in terms of the specific study programme special-ization, study level and study form.

Author Biographies

Katarína Krpálková Krelová, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic

Department of Economic Teaching Methodology

Kateřina Berková, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic

Department of Economic Teaching Methodology

Pavel Krpálek, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic

Department of Economic Teaching Methodology

Andrea Kubišová, College of Polytechnics Jihlava

Department of Mathematics

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Published

2021-07-09

How to Cite

Krpálková Krelová, K., Berková, K., Krpálek, P., & Kubišová, A. (2021). Attitudes of Czech College Students Toward Digital Literacy and Their Technical Aids in Times of COVID-19. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 11(4), pp. 130–147. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v11i4.20821

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