Having good skills when it comes to digital competences is key nowadays, and, due to the inevitable digitalization of society, essential on various levels of our engagement. The master's thesis studies, based on the quantitative analysis of data from 2024, in greater detail the digital competences of the Slovenian high school students, where the main focus is on the digital competence in the area of ‘safety’. Our aim was to research, how well developed the digital competences of the Slovenian high school students are, what the connection between the sociodemographic and socioeconomic variables – gender, type of high school education and family social background – and the Slovenian high school students’ skills with regard to the digital competences ‘safety’ is and whether the attitude towards learning about digital competences and high school students’ skills relative to the digital competence ‘safety’ are connected. We found that the Slovenian high school students’ digital competences are the most developed in the area of information literacy and data literacy and the least developed in the area of digital content creation. Further, we focused on the digital competence ‘safety’, where we found that the boys evaluated their skills in this area better than the girls. In this area, high school students enrolled in a specialized high school program evaluated themselves higher than those attending the general high school program, while students attending vocational high schools evaluated their skills the lowest. High school students with higher social backgrounds show the highest level of skills in the digital competence ‘safety’, followed by those with the mid-level social background and those coming from families with a lower social background. We also found a connection between the attitudes towards learning about digital competences and skills in the area of the digital competence ‘safety’, where the 'committed' high school students are most confident in their knowledge, the 'averagely committed' somewhat less and 'not committed' students are the least confident.
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