Exploring Higher Education Competencies through Spreadsheet Self-Assessment and Time

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Auteurs principaux: Csernoch, Maria, Kiss, Judit T., Takács, Viktor, Máté, Domicián
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author Csernoch, Maria
Kiss, Judit T.
Takács, Viktor
Máté, Domicián
author_facet Csernoch, Maria
Kiss, Judit T.
Takács, Viktor
Máté, Domicián
contents The present paper aims to explore higher education students' spreadsheet competencies and reliability through self-assessment and real-world problem-solving practices. Digital natives alleged skills and competences allowed us to hypothesize that students perform better in Excel than on paper, but the findings cannot confirm this hypothesis. However, our results indicate that students tend to inaccurately assess their spreadsheet competencies compared to their actual performance in both paper-based and Excel tasks. It has also be found that students need at least twice as much time to achieve the same high scores in the digital environment as they do on paper. The results violated the widely accepted assumption that digital native students do not need computer science education, since they are born with it. This study highlights the importance of accurate self-assessment in digital skill development and time management within higher education contexts, particularly in technology-driven disciplines.
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spellingShingle Exploring Higher Education Competencies through Spreadsheet Self-Assessment and Time
Csernoch, Maria
Kiss, Judit T.
Takács, Viktor
Máté, Domicián
Human-Computer Interaction
The present paper aims to explore higher education students' spreadsheet competencies and reliability through self-assessment and real-world problem-solving practices. Digital natives alleged skills and competences allowed us to hypothesize that students perform better in Excel than on paper, but the findings cannot confirm this hypothesis. However, our results indicate that students tend to inaccurately assess their spreadsheet competencies compared to their actual performance in both paper-based and Excel tasks. It has also be found that students need at least twice as much time to achieve the same high scores in the digital environment as they do on paper. The results violated the widely accepted assumption that digital native students do not need computer science education, since they are born with it. This study highlights the importance of accurate self-assessment in digital skill development and time management within higher education contexts, particularly in technology-driven disciplines.
title Exploring Higher Education Competencies through Spreadsheet Self-Assessment and Time
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12974