Identifying the accuracy of and exaggeration in self-reports of ICT knowledge among different groups of students: The use of the overclaiming technique

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Kp.rtf5Pmd" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Kp.rtf5Pmd</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104112" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104112</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Identifying the accuracy of and exaggeration in self-reports of ICT knowledge among different groups of students: The use of the overclaiming technique

Original language description

An inaccurate self-assessment might hinder the effectiveness of the self-management of one&apos;s learning, for example, people underestimating their knowledge might not utilize their capabilities. Inaccuracies in self-reported knowledge also hinder the comparability of the data across different respondents. The overclaiming technique (OCT) allows the identification of accuracy and exaggeration in self-reported knowledge and enhances the comparability of the data. Respondents are asked to evaluate their degree of familiarity with a series of items including both existing concepts from a specific field of knowledge and non-existing words. The technique has been used in various knowledge domains (e.g. mathematics) but no previous study has used the OCT in the domain of ICT knowledge on a large-scale sample. This study fills this gap. We created a set of existing ICT concepts and non-existing words. Using the set, we studied the differences in the accuracy and exaggeration of the ICT knowledge self-reports of Czech students at upper secondary schools, which have different emphases on ICT skills development (N = 1,871). ICT students report that they are more familiar than students from other school types with not only existing concepts but also non-existing words. Also, males claim more familiarity with both existing and non-existing concepts. Regards external validity, the OCT adjusted familiarity index corresponds more closely to the actual knowledge, as measured by an ICT achievement test, (r = 0.53) than the unadjusted familiarity index (r = 0.37). We show that the adjustment of student self-reports using the OCT offers promising results.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-02993S" target="_blank" >GA17-02993S: Factors influencing the ICT skill self-assessments of upper-secondary school students</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Computers and Education

ISSN

0360-1315

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

164

Issue of the periodical within the volume

April 2021

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

000617257000003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85099227250