• Charu Bansal
• Prof. Pradeep Kumar Misra

With the emergence of digitalization, the students, particularly at the secondary level of education, have to acquire skills to understand, find, utilize, and create information from various sources on the internet. These skills are popularly known as digital literacy skills. Here, an important question arises in our minds that what is the level of digital literacy skills of secondary level students. This research attempted to answer this question by selecting a sample of 100 secondary level students through random sampling. The digital literacy skills of chosen students were assessed by administering the Digital Literacy Assessment Test (DLAT) in online mode. The scores of the students served as the basis for the assessment of their digital literacy skills. The obtained results are further used to provide some useful recommendations to improve teacher preparation programmes to prepare a new generation of teachers ready to utilize secondary level school students' digital skills for educational and social betterment.

Digital literacy, Digital Literacy Skills, Secondary level students, Teacher Preparation, Teachers

"Digital Literacy Skills of Secondary Level Students: An Assessment", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no.c430-c436, June-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106332.pdf

"Digital Literacy Skills of Secondary Level Students: An Assessment", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no. ppc430-c436, June-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106332.pdf