Reliability Analysis of the Effect of Digital Literacy on Performance among Secondary School Students in Malaysia

Abstract

This paper intends to classify the factors relating to digital literacy and their effect on student performance. School teachers have been chosen in preliminary studies and support from past literature and pilot tests via survey have been carried out with 30 secondary school students. The influence of three dimensions on student performance have been studied, which include individual factors, the learning environment (physical), and socio-cultural aspects. From the pilot test, the results show that self-efficacy has the lowest value of 0.584, and the highest value is educational materials with 0.875 and is considered as one of the main factors of digital literacy.

Keywords

• digital literacy
• individual factors
• learning factors
• socio-cultural factors
• student performance