Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify youths' levels of digital citizenship, to identify youths' levels of self-efficacy, and to determine the relationship between their digital citizenship levels and their self-efficacy levels. Their digital citizenship levels were determined based on five factors: 1) Ethics for Digital Environment, 2) Fluency for Digital Environment, 3) Reasonable/Critical Decisions, 4) Self-Identity in Digital World, and 5) Social/Cultural Engagement to Society. Their self-efficacy levels were determined based on three factors: 1) Academic Self-efficacy, 2) Social Self-efficacy, and 3) Emotional Self-efficacy. The study has four major phases. First, an in-depth literature review was conducted on digital citizenship, digital citizenship education, self-efficacy, and of any evidence correlating the two factors in study. Next, the researcher collected the data from the middle school participants attending an after-school camp using an online survey. Then, descriptive and correlation analyses revealed the youths' levels of digital citizenship and self-efficacy and that there is correlation between youths' digital citizenship levels and their self-efficacy levels, particularly within the digital citizenship sub scale of Self-identify. Finally, this study discusses the results and implications of the findings on society, policy makers, educators and future research.

Graduation Date

2019

Semester

Fall

Advisor

Olan, Elsie

Degree

Master of Education (M.Ed.)

College

College of Community Innovation and Education

Department

School of Teacher Education

Degree Program

Secondary Education; English Language Arts Education

Format

application/pdf

Identifier

CFE0008270; DP0023641

Language

English

Release Date

6-15-2023

Length of Campus-only Access

3 years

Access Status

Masters Thesis (Open Access)

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