Digital Literacy of Silpakorn University’s Undergraduate Students, Sanam Chandra Palace Campus

Abstract

The research paper aims to study the digital literacy of Silpakorn University’s undergraduate students, Sanam Chandra Palace Campus in the following aspects: knowledge and understanding of digital information, access to and search of digital information, and the creation and the use of digital information. The sample group of the research were undergraduate students of Silpakorn University, Sanam Chandra Palace Campus, who registered for the academic year 2020. There were 373 students from 5 faculties. Data was collected using  a questionnaire. The statistics used were percentage, mean, and standard deviation.

The results showed that the undergraduate students of Silpakorn University, Sanam Chan Palace Campus had a high level of the overall digital literacy (x̅ = 4.11), with the highest level in knowledge and understanding of digital information (x̅ = 4.22), followed by the use of digital information (x̅ = 4.18), and access to and search of digital information (x̅ = 4.05), while the creation of digital information had the lowest average value (x̅ = 3.98). When considering each aspect in detail, it was found that in the aspect of the knowledge and understanding of digital information, the topic which had the highest mean score was the cautiousness in believing news from social media (x̅ = 4.42); in the aspect of access to and search of digital information, the topic of the ability to use online tools and websites to search for and save data has the highest mean (x̅ = 4.31); in the use of digital information, the highest mean score was the awareness of copyright infringement (x̅ = 4.34); and in the digital information creation, the item with the highest score was the ability to present the report in class with mixed media such as Power Point slides, and videos (x̅ = 4.31).