Digital skills and academic performance in students of a Peruvian technical-productive education institution

Vicente R.R.B.; Frauberth C.L.B.; Godofredo V.S.A.; Javier V.A.J. · Revista de Ciencias Sociales (2022) · DOI: 10.31876/rcs.v28i.38832

Resumen

In order to reduce contagion by the COVID-19 pandemic, Peruvian educational institutions migrated to digital environments, showing that, even though current generations are skilled in the use of technology for socialization, not all of them use it correctly in their learning. The objective of this article is to determine the relationship between digital competencies and academic performance in students of a Peruvian technicalproductive education institution. For this purpose, the questionnaire of Gutiérrez-Castillo et al. (2017), validated by local experts, was contextualized and applied virtually through the digital platform to a sample represented by 52 students of the specialty of “Computer Operation” of the Technical-productive education center “Tarma” for having the largest number of students at the time of the research. It was obtained as a result that 46% and 44% of the students presented a good or superior level of digital skills and academic performance respectively; in addition, there is a statistically significant positive relationship between digital competences and academic performance (0.572). It is concluded that digital skills are a factor related to academic performance in students of the specialty analyzed, so if a student has greater digital skills, they will present better academic performance

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional del Centro del Perú