Martinez, Diego 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3040-6293, Helsper, Ellen ORCID: 0000-0002-0852-2853, d'Haenens, Leen, Vissenberg, Joyce, Edisherashvili, Natalia, Puusepp, Marit, Tomczyk, Lukasz, Kielar, Izabela, Martinez, Gemma, Irani, Fatemeh, Maksniemi, Erika, Hietajärvi, Lauri, Salmela-Aro, Katariina, Tiihonen, Sini, Sormanen, Niina and Wilska, Terhi-Anna
(2025)
Synthesis of evaluation studies of media literacy and digital skills interventions.
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KU Leuven: REMEDIS, Leuven, BE.
Abstract
This report details the REMEDIS findings for Media Literacy and Digital Skills (ML&DS) interventions, where before and after measures were available. In general, the interventions increased participants’ digital literacy and internet use. However, the impact of interventions on increased benefits of use (i.e. outcomes) was not as clear.1 Most interventions reported significant changes in digital literacy levels. Improvements were greater when participants reported higher digital literacy levels before the intervention. However, digital literacy improvements were not consistently related to breadth of or the outcomes achieved from ICT use before the intervention. All interventions showed significant changes in ICT use post-intervention, mostly these were increases. Larger increases in ICT use post-intervention were related to higher digital literacy levels. Increases tended to be smaller for interventions where participants used ICTs more broadly before the intervention, suggesting ceiling effects. There was substantially less evidence that ML&DS interventions increased beneficial outcomes of ICT use. In most evaluations, interventions had no (short-term) impact on the benefits participants achieved from ICT use. Also, digital literacy levels and ICT use preintervention did not appear to be related to whether a person received more satisfactory outcomes post-intervention. In comparison to those with better ICT access, those with lower quality access to ICT were more likely to improve their digital literacy skills and broaden their ICT use, but were not more likely to improve the outcomes achieved from ICT use. Two main conclusions can be drawn about who benefits most from interventions: 1) Improvements in digital literacy, uses and outcomes were more consistent for interventions aimed at participants with more socio-economic resources. 2) Interventions aimed at educators or carers were the ones that reported improvements in outcomes, interventions with vulnerable groups as beneficiaries showed fewer improvements in outcomes.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Report) |
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| Official URL: | https://remedis-chanse.eu/publications/ |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 20 May 2025 10:54 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2025 10:55 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/128149 |
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