Valutazione della competenza digitale: che cosa fare per la scuola primaria

Abstract

Assessment of Digital Competence: A Tool for Primary Schools

Digital competence is now recognized as one of the most important educational goals to be pursued in the policies of the new millennium. Research is proposing numerous considerations to better define the nature of this competence and it generally stresses the need to develop theoretical models in which, together with strictly technical knowledge and skills, cognitive abilities and notions of ethics and behavior are also present. This theoretical reflection includes the problem of providing schools with tools to facilitate and assess progressive advances at various levels of age. In the European framework and within the Digital Competence Assessment (DCA), a program which also covers other school levels, the present contribution shows a questionnaire used in order to assess digital competence in primary schools, which is useful to identify areas on which to conduct immediate actions. The questionnaire, together with its accompanying instructions, is made available to schools under the Creative Commons license.