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The eAssessment of Key Competences and Their Relationship With Academic Performance

The eAssessment of Key Competences and Their Relationship With Academic Performance
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Author(s): Fernando Martinez-Abad (University of Salamanca, Spain), Patricia Torrijos-Fincias (University of Salamanca, Spain)and María José Rodríguez-Conde (University of Salamanca, Spain)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 13
Source title: Student Engagement and Participation: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2584-4.ch023

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Abstract

Even though in the current information-rich environment information skills have become a key competence within school curricula, their transversal, sometimes marginal character is maintained in basic education. This research work intends to facilitate the teachers information-rich environment information skills have become a key competence within school curricula, their transversal, sometimence, understood mainly as the performance in language and mathematics. The sample of the study was composed of 258 secondary education students from Spain, who completed a validated questionnaire that evaluated information skills. The results show a significant positive relationship between information skills and academic performance. The authors conclude by discussing the importance of emphasizing the study of information skills as a factor associated with academic performance, aiming to foster their effective integration in formal teaching-learning processes.

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