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New RStyles team publication – cooperation with European Commission Joint Research Centre Seville

New paper “Can Overclaiming Technique Improve Self-Assessment Tools for Digital Competence? The Case of DigCompSat” has been recently published in Sage journal Social Science Computer Review (IF = 4.418). The paper investigated how typical self-report problems  (positivity bias, careless responding) can be mitigated by using the overclaiming technique, a technique that identifies and corrects the bias variance in self-assessments. Our main result was that the use of the overclaiming technique can lead to higher reliability and validity of digital competence self-assessment tools, especially for short scales. Moreover, it allows for correcting additional spurious variance in comparison with careless responding indexes, which allows the use of both these techniques in parallel to increase the quality of data. Our results are important in providing advances in enhanced information on digital competence that can result in better lifelong learning decisions when used at the individual level and in better policy-making decisions when used at the aggregate level.

Paper’s coauthors are former researchers of European Commission Joint Research Centre in Seville: Dr. Jonatan Castaño-Muñoz (now at Universidad de Sevilla) and Dr. Riina Vuorikari.