The Skills section measures participants’ self-assessed ability to perform a wide range of digital tasks. These items capture how confident people feel doing things like searching for information, creating content, protecting their privacy, or recognizing when AI is being used. The questions cover different domains of digital competence, from information and communication skills to AI and generative AI skills, and together provide insight into participants’ everyday digital capabilities and confidence levels.
Loading
Strategic Information Competence is the ability to effectively search for and locate information online. This includes choosing good keywords, using search functions, and finding answers to questions on the internet.
Critical Information Competence is the ability to evaluate online information: checking whether information is true, assessing website reliability, and understanding the purpose of online content (to inform, influence, entertain, or sell).