Abstract
ABSTRACT Teachers must be digitally competent at the beginning of their career. The main aim of this paper is to study whether specific training is necessary to enable pre-service teachers in Catalonia with the required level of teacher digital competence (TDC). Three cases are discussed. In the first case, TDC is self-assessed among first-year pre-service teachers (N = 1166). In the second, TDC is assessed among second year pre-service teachers who received specific training (N = 33). The third case measures TDC among third-year, pre-service teachers without any specific training in TDC (N = 151). Results reveal that pre-service teachers who are given specific training in TDC get better scores in the assessment compared to those who do not receive training. Practical implications on formative assessment emerge: specific training in TDC in higher education curricula must be practical and address methodological aspects of TDC.
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