OROSCO-FABIAN, Jhon Richard et al. Digital competences in secondary education teachers in a province of central Peru. Educare [online]. 2021, vol. 25, n. 3, pp. 624-648. ISSN 1409-4258. http://dx. doi. org/10.15359/ree. 25-3.34.
Objective.
Analyze the level of achievement of digital competencies in secondary education teachers according to gender, age, and working conditions.
Method.
The research has a quantitative approach and a descriptive cross-sectional design. The sample consisted of 247 teachers from public educational institutions of a province in the central region of Peru. Information was collected through an elaborated instrument based on the proposal of the Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado (Intef, 2017) that assesses digital competencies grouped into five areas.
Results.
The results show that teachers have a satisfactory level of achievement in the digital competencies of Internet navigation, search and filtering of information, data and digital content (50.2%), development of digital content (42.5%), curriculum integration (46.2%), and health protection (44.9%). In the other digital competencies, teachers have a level of achievement in progress.
Conclusions.
It is concluded that teachers are in the process of developing digital competencies, and there is a significant difference in relation to the variables of gender, age, and working conditions.