Validação de escalas para medir habilidades do Homo Zappiens

Abstract

This paper studies the possible effects of the systematic use of information technology in the development of secondary school education students skills studying in public schools in Fortaleza. The sample 569 students who answered a set of scales that aim to reveal the presence of skills suggested by authors who coined the expression homo zappiens to name people that use, assiduously, information technology in their school life. It used the factor analysis as a method to check for possible underlying structure to the alleged skills. This article was developed in order to verify empirically whether there is really a construct Homo Zappiens when using Information and Communications Technology – ICTs by the secondary school education students who study in public schools in Fortaleza.