Digital Literacy Assessment: Methodology, Conceptual Model and Measurement Tool

Abstract

The development of new technologies, the extensive implementation of digital devices in all spheres of society contributed to the appearance of a new type of human literacy - digital literacy. Today, it ranks alongside other basic literacies such as numeracy, writing, and reading. Digital literacy has become an indicator to the new conditions of life, involving the use of digital technologies in education, family and professional activities; to some extent, it has become an indicator of the socialization of a modern person. Based on the analysis of international approaches to the assessment of digital literacy and related constructs, a conceptual model of its measurement is proposed, in which digital literacy is considered as a complex latent construct. The process of developing digital literacy assessment tools based on the Principled Assessment Design paradigm and the Evidence-Centered Design method is presented.  An analysis of the results of digital literacy studies of students in grades 7-8 made it possible to confirm the quality of the developed tools for measuring digital literacy based on authentic performance-based tasks, to confirm the reliability and validity of the results of its measurement.