The digital competences of the students of Basic Vocational Training
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Digital competence implies the creative, critical and safe use of information and communication technologies for a use adapted to today’s society. The purpose of the present research is to know the digital competences of the students that are enrolled in the vocational training cycles of Basic Vocational Training (n = 251). A correlation method with bivariate analysis has been applied to the entire population of Basic Vocational Training students of the Autonomous City of Ceuta (Spain), the data collection has been developed through a questionnaire that has been validated by expert judgment and a reliable through the internal consistency coefficient. Alpha of Cronbach. The data analysis has been carried out through a bivariate analysis through contingency tables to explore the possible associations between the different study variables. In order to know if there are statistically significant differences, it was first verified if the data fulfilled the assumptions of normality (Kolmogorov-Smirnov) and homoscedasticity (Levene’s test) to apply parametric tests. When the assumptions were not met, nonparametric methods were applied. The nonparametric tests applied were Mann-Whitney U, being the variable to be compared categorical, ordinal type and Chi-square for the association of categorical variables. With the Mann-Whitney U we have measured the difference between the analyzed distributions and with Chi-square, we have tested the independence (null hypothesis) or the association (alternative hypothesis). The results show that there is a significant relationship between the use of various ICT devices (computer, Tablet or Smartphone) and ICT resources, the relationship being in most cases the inverse. The main conclusions we can obtain is that the students of Basic Vocational Training at Autonomous City of Ceuta (Spain) have digital competences for personal use, where they use it very frequently, but not in the academic field, where they hardly use it.