Identifiying Digital Literacy of High School Students: A Case of Hendek

Abstract

This research aims to identify digital literacy level of 10 th grade high school students’ and determine those levels in terms of different variables. In this study, the research method was performed according to the relational comparing model as a comparison type. The research population consists of 948 students from all high schools in the province of Hendek at Sakarya in 2016-2017 education season year. And the sampling consisted of 394 students from 5 different high schools. Digital Literacy Scale that translated to Turkish by Hamutoğlu, Güngören, Uyanık and Erdoğan (2017) was used in this research for data collection tool. Personal information section was added by reseacher to scale. Standard deviation, frequency analysis, arithmetic averages, descriptive statistical data, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and independent sample t-test techniques was used to analyze research. The level of high school students' digital literacy; doesn’t vary according to having a personal mobile Internet connection for regular use, the type of university exam scores gets into university exam score, family economic income, active time period on Internet. But gender, having a personal computer for regular use varies according to technical sub-dimensional and active time period on personal computer varies according to technical, cognitive and social dimensions.