Investigation of the Relationship between Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy Levels of Secondary School Students

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to determine whether digital literacy is a predictor of digital citizenship by examining the relationship between digital citizenship and digital literacy levels of secondary education students in terms of various variables. The study group of the study consists of 847 secondary school students’ who study in public schools in Selcuklu central district of Konya province in 2018 - 2019 academic year. The screening method, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the research. As data collection tool; “Personal Information Form” developed by the researcher to reach the personal information of secondary school students, “Digital Citizenship Scale” developed by Som-Vural to determine the levels of digital citizenship, and “Digital Literacy Scale” developed by Hamutoglu and others to determine the levels of digital literacy was applied. At the end of the study, it was concluded that the digital citizenship levels of secondary school students were high. It was concluded that there is a significant difference between the levels of digital citizenship of secondary school students and the year of internet use. It is concluded that there was no significant difference between gender, class level, time spent on daily internet time variables and secondary school students' digital literacy levels. There was no significant difference between class level variable and digital literacy level. In the correlation analysis conducted to determine the relationship between digital citizenship levels and digital literacy levels of secondary school students, it was found that there was a positive directional and significant relationship at the, medium-level. In addition, the effect of digital literacy on digital citizenship was found to be positive directional and significant.

Keywords: Digital citizenship, digital literacy, secondary school students, survey.

DOI: 10.7176/JSTR/6-12-02