Digital Literacy And Teaching Competence: A Correlational Study On The Factors Of Digital Literacy And Teaching Competence

Abstract

The study was undertaken to study the relationship between the factors of Digital literacy and Teaching Competence of Prospective Teachers enrolled in various teacher training colleges (B.Ed, colleges) of Kashmir Valley. Multistage random sampling technique was used in order to get the required sample of 350 Prospective Teachers from the target population. For the collection of data the investigator employed tools VIZ; Teachers’ Digital Competence Scale developed by Ramakrishna (2017) and General Teaching Competence Scale developed by Vimal Vadushy (2020), and Correlation was computed by employing Pearson’s Product Moment Coefficient  of Correlation on Digital literacy and Teaching competence of Prospective teachers at dimension level.  The findings of the study revealed that an insignificant posititive relationship was found between the factors; Knowledge of Digital Practices, Expertise in using Digital Technology for Teaching Learning and Sharing Digital Data for Teaching Learning with time management factor of Teaching Competence. However, a significant and positive relationship was found between the factors of Digital literacy with all the rest of the factors of Teaching Competence.