Digital literacy assessment of undergraduate students from physical education program of Thailand national sports university

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to 1) assess levels of digital literacy of undergraduate students from Physical Education Program of Thailand National Sports University (TNSU); and 2) compare digital literacy levels of the students with consideration on the variables of sex and class level. Using a quantitative research method, the sample of this study consisted of 400 undergraduate students from Physical Education Program, Faculty of Education, TNSU, who were studying in their first semester of the academic year 2019. It was obtained via a multistage random sampling technique. The data collection tool was the Digital Literacy Assessment for Undergraduate Students of Wawta Techataweewan and Ujsara Prasertsin (2016), which contains four components for a total of 54 questions. The data analysis was relied on descriptive statistics and multiple techniques, including independent-samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, and post-hoc comparison with Scheffe's method. The results revealed that: 1) the undergraduate students from the Physical Education Program of TNSU had a high level of overall digital literacy, 2) the female students had significantly higher digital literacy than males, and 3) the students in the 5th class level had higher digital literacy than those in the first-class level significantly at the significance level of .05. However, no significant differences among other class levels were discovered.