Are They Really Aware? A Digital Venture for Addressing "Digital Literacy"among the P.G. Students at the University of North Bengal
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2022-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
The ability to locate, organise, assess, analyse, and utilise using digital technology is referred to as
digital literacy. It entails having a working knowledge of several technologies as well as
understanding how they might be employed. The study's main objective was to determine the literacy
of using digital resources by postgraduate students of the University of North Bengal, West Bengal.
Thepresent study also determines the student's level of ICT skills, frequency of internet use by the
respondents, determines their awareness ofvarious databases, as well as their expertise with various
search algorithms for retrieving E-resources. The study also highlights the Mann-Whitney U Test on
the Digital literacy level of the P.G. Students with a two-tailed result where "Male" higher than
"Female" or"Female" higher than "Male" doesn't matter.The significant findings of the study
highlight the association between "Frequency of use of the library" and "Satisfied with services
provided by the library" with a p-value: 0.2496, Pearson's Chi-Squarestatistic as 10.224 and Degrees
of Freedom (df) as 8. It was also found that P.G. students rated their digital skills as High (a total
mean of 3.809). The parameter with the highest mean (4.33) was "Learning may be enhanced by
employing digital tools and resources," and the parameter with the second highest mean (4.26) was
"training in technology-enhanced language learning should be incorporated in language education
programs."
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13th International CALIBER-2022, BHU, Varanasi, UP, 17-19 November 2022
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Digital Literacy, Digital Skills, Mann-Whitney U Test, Postgraduate Students, University of North Bengal