Evaluation of Digital Competence in Teacher Training

Abstract

The changes that society is experimenting affect the educational system, including a wide range of educational agents. Teachers are required to adapt to these changes and to be involved a continuous learning process in order to offer a high-quality education. For this reason and the concern about the digital competence of both, teachers and students, the aim of this study is to detect the level of digital competence of pre-service teachers, specifically 316 students among the Faculty of Education of the University of Salamanca (USAL). Since digital competence is a broad concept, we are focusing on information and data literacy. The procedure to detect digital and informational competence that has been applied includes a self-perception scale but also objective evidences, which allow to carry out a comparison between how pre-service teachers perceive themselves and what they actually know. The results show moderate levels of digital competence in the pre-service teachers but also significative differences among their self-perception and their results in the objective evidences.