Accuracy and bias of ICT self-efficacy: An empirical study into students’ over- and underestimation of their ICT competences

Aesaert, Koen; Voogt, Joke; Kuiper, Els; Braak, Johan van

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.010

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“…However, this result is difficult to interpret alone because the development of skills and self-efficacy beliefs might interact. As Bellini et al [25] and Aesaert et al [6] argued, the self-efficacy beliefs of inexperienced individuals are typically inaccurate and unrealistically high, and when they get more experienced, their self-evaluations become more accurate and less biased. This means that if students' skills are improved in the intervention (students get more experienced), their estimates of self-efficacy will become more accurate.…”

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“…Bandura [4] defined self-efficacy as individuals' confidence in their own capabilities to organize and execute the course of actions required to perform a task or attain a goal. Previous research suggests that individuals with high self-efficacy use their skills [5] and develop their skills [6]. Individuals with low self-efficacy tend to avoid challenging activities [7] and are less likely to develop their competencies [8].…”

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“…Individuals with low self-efficacy tend to avoid challenging activities [7] and are less likely to develop their competencies [8]. Aesaert et al [6] found that competent primary school students had quite realistic ICT-related selfefficacy beliefs, but less competent students overestimated their ability severely. The researchers suggested that realistic but slightly overoptimistic beliefs have a positive effect on students' acquisition of competences.…”

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How Does Information Literacy Instruction in Secondary Education Affect Students’ Self-efficacy Beliefs and Attitudes?

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This paper reports the findings of a study on how students' self-efficacy in and attitudes to online research develop in a two-year information literacy intervention in the lower secondary school. The data was collected by a questionnaire administered before, in the middle of, and after the intervention. A repeated measures ANOVA was used to reveal the effect of the intervention. The teaching intervention changed students' behavioral intentions in the evaluation of search results and in source-based writing. No intervention effect was observed in other attitude factors or in self-efficacy beliefs. The authors suggest that selfefficacy and attitudes should be considered as explicit learning goals in pedagogical practices in order to develop them more effectively.

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“…Conversely, the mean percentage of the population using eLearning services, the mean number of broadband Internet per 100,000 persons and mean amount of CO 2 emission is more than the average of each variable making the asymmetry of the distribution of each variable positively skewed. Further exploration of the coefficient of asymmetry and histogram of each variable showed that the variables had an absolute skewness value close to zero and did not need to be transformed (Aesaert et al 2017). It is interesting to note that while only 5% of the population uses eBanking service, and 42% of the population uses e-mail in Timisoara (Romania), being the lowest among the cities under consideration, Copenhagen (Denmark) has the highest values in both categories with 93% of its population using eBanking service and 97% using e-mail.…”

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Assessing the Gap between Technology and the Environmental Sustainability of European Cities

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The growth of cities' population increased the interest in the opportunities and challenges that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have on carbon footprint reduction, which fosters their environmental sustainability. Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), six ICT-related variables from European Union (EU) cities were combined into a single twodimensional ICT index. Then, through cluster analysis, cities were clustered into four groups based on the ICT index and Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. Using ICT as an indicator of smartness and CO 2 emissions as an indicator of sustainability, we show that it is possible for a city to be smart but not sustainable and vice versa. Results also indicate that there is a gap between cities in northern Europe, which are the top performers in both categories, and cities in south-eastern Europe, which do not perform as well. The need for a common strategy for achieving integrated smart, sustainable and inclusive growth at a European level is demonstrated.

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“…Some time ago knowledge in the field of software development provided serious competitive advantage to the specialist working in the field of information technology (IT). However, nowadays the reality of modern social life has slightly changed indicators of an IT specialist success (Aesaert, Voogt, Kuiper & Braak, 2017). In modern conditions the ability to demonstrate personal knowledge, to give reasons for opinions and ideas, to present correctly the results of activities in writing and speaking is an important factor.…”

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Communicative Competence Development As Success Factor For Specialists Of Information Technology

Naumova¹

2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Modern information technology has made life easier, increased the levels of international trade and interaction. Among other fields of activity, they are used in medicine and for looking for ways to mitigate the effects of climate change with regard to monitoring, data collection, changes in the supply chains and control of transport and power supply. All of it brought the IT to be on-fire specialty. However, it is not enough to have a couple of IT specialists for creation of modern products in the IT field. Large and professional team working as a unit is absolutely essential. Such interaction would be impossible without effective social skills. Skills of communication with employees, responsible executives, partners and clients are very important. Communicative competence of an expert is important for formation of credibility, management approach and enhancing of personal effectiveness. Possessing such a competence, the professionals working together at the same project give the best results. Efficiency of the whole process increases too. The purpose of this study was the development of communicative competence of the IT specialists using teamwork method. Comparative analysis has shown the significant growth of the indices, which level was on a mark below the average. These statistically significant results of the mathematical data analysis allow asserting that the educational technology is effective and suggests that the development of communicative competence of the IT specialists is possible to realize in conditions of post-graduate education.465 process of formation of communicative competence and has allocated a special channel of computer communication. Thus, she narrowed the scope of activities of IT professionals to processing, retrieving, transmission and protection of information (Bernaskaya, 2007). As far as the role of foreign language in the process of the IT professionals training grows, the proper use of foreign language becomes compulsive.Operation of a specialist with foreign-language software reference, use of foreign resources to obtain technical data, operation with system messages can serve as a model. The IT specialist defines the requirements for a product to be developed jointly with the customer and interacts in a team in the process of the product creating, therefore, it is important to consider different ways of communication (humancomputer, human-human).The experts involved in the problem of communicative competence proposed various definitions of this phenomenon (Dumitriu, Timofti & Dumitriu, 2014;Kataoka, Ikeda & Besnier, 2013). We will adhere to the following definitions: communicative competence is the ability of a person to establish and maintain communication with people around. This ability includes knowledge about the notion of communication and communicative competence, the ways of communication, conditions of creating the opportunity for communication and skills to apply this knowledge in practice. Research QuestionsThe key subject of a study became the following: is it pos...

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Accuracy and bias of ICT self-efficacy: An empirical study into students’ over- and underestimation of their ICT competences

Cited by 79 publications

References 57 publications

How Does Information Literacy Instruction in Secondary Education Affect Students’ Self-efficacy Beliefs and Attitudes?

How Does Information Literacy Instruction in Secondary Education Affect Students’ Self-efficacy Beliefs and Attitudes?

Assessing the Gap between Technology and the Environmental Sustainability of European Cities

Communicative Competence Development As Success Factor For Specialists Of Information Technology

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