NDLI: First year university students’ self-perception of ICT skills: Do learning styles matter?

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Verhoeven, Jef C. Heerwegh, Dirk Wit, Kurt
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Do ICT skills of freshmen change in 6 months at the university? What is the contribution of learning styles (or patterns) to the explanation of the variance in self-perceived ICT skills and the possible change in these skills? And what is the contribution of learning styles and of gender, social class, and ICT course attendance to the explanation of the variance in these skills? To answer these questions, data were collected in a panel research project that recruited 714 freshmen at a large Belgian university. The data show that the ability of the students to maintain a computer and to develop a website improves at the university but not the ability to use the Internet or to apply basic ICT skills. The analyses show that there is a link, albeit weak, between learning styles and self-perceived ICT skills. Learning styles can partially explain differences between groups of students with different characteristics. The data show that having a certain learning style might influence the perception of students of their ICT skill, but learning styles do not allow one to predict the change in the self-perceived ICT skills of the students.
Starting Page	109
Ending Page	133
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13602357
Journal	Education and Information Technologies
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737608
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2011-01-06
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Self-perceived ICT competence Learning style University Student Internet use Computer maintenance Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Education (general) Educational Technology Computers and Education Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Library and Information Sciences E-learning

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