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Survey Measures of Web-Oriented Digital Literacy
article presents survey measures weboriented digital literacy serve proxies observed skill measures much expensive difficult collect large samples findings based study examined users digital literacy observations survey questions making possible check validity survey proxy measures analyses yield set recommendations measures work well survey proxies peoples observed webuse skills survey measures administered general social survey 2000 2002 internet modules making findings relevant use existing largescale national data sets results suggest composite variables survey knowledge items better predictors peoples actual digital literacy based performance tests measures users selfperceived abilities proxy traditionally used literature topic