ICT skills

Student self-efficacy
More than 10 000 Australian students in Years 6 and 10
took part in the 2014 NAP – ICT Literacy survey.
It included a question about how confident they felt in doing
nine ICT-related tasks. Here are some of the Year 10 results
(percentages of respondents are rounded to whole numbers).

Create a database Use software to

(e.g using Microsoft find and get rid of
Access, or FileMaker) computer viruses

'I don't know 'I don't know

what this 'I know what this means, 'I know what this
means' but I cannot do it'
what this
means'
means, but I
cannot do it'
30%
21% 35% 3%

'I can do this with 'I can do this with

a bit of effort' a bit of effort' 'I can do this
'I can do this easily by easily by 34%
27% myself'
34% myself'
16%

Create a multimedia Use a spreadsheet to

presentation (with plot a graph
sound, photos, video)

'I don't know 'I don't know

'I know what this
what this
means'
means, but I
cannot do it'
8% what this
means'
'I know what this means,
but I cannot do it'

2% 5% 15%

'I can do this with 'I can do this with

a bit of effort' 'I can do this a bit of effort'

27%
easily by
myself'
63% 40%
'I can do this easily by
myself'

40%

Source: Fraillon, J., Schulz, W., Gebhardt, E., & Ainley, J. (2015). National Assessment Program: ICT Literacy Years 6 & 10
Report 2014. ACARA http://research.acer.edu.au/ict_literacy/11