Hello Anna, Eurostat has attempted to measure the level of computer and Internet skills in some EU-wide surveys. How this was done and a recent application of the method is provided by Maria Garrido et al. (2010) "Immigrant women, e-skills & employability in Europe: The case of Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, and Spain" (http://cis.washington.edu/employability/2010/03/01/immigrant-women-e-skills-...). See in particular pp.30-31. I copy from there: "In 2007, the EU Digital Literacy Model measured Internet skills level using six Internet related tasks: use a search engine to find information; send an e-mail with attached files; post messages to chatrooms, newsgroups or any online discussion forum; use the Internet to make telephone calls; use peer-to-peer file sharing for exchanging movies, music, etc.; and create a web page. Low level of basic Internet skills: ability to carry out 1 or 2 of the 6 Internet-related tasks. Medium level of basic Internet skills: ability to carry out 3 or 4 of the 6 tasks. High level of basic Internet skills: ability to carry out 5 or 6 of the 6 tasks." Skill levels are thus defined based on the number of abilities, and not their type and/or combination (which is clearly a rough approximation). I think Eurostat has updated or is updating this approach (possibly both in terms of types of abilities and resulting levels), but I am not sure if this evolution has already been tested and is publicly available. You may explore that starting from the link which gives explanations of the above method: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/web/table/description.jsp best regards Stefano Kluzer 2010/6/23 anna <annclub1@rambler.ru>:

Hello everyone!

I am preparing my research experiment on web site usability and I have to do a pre-test to select people for it: I need to define if they are beginners, intermediate or advanced internet users (in general). You know, something similar to English-level tests: if a person can do A, he/she is a beginner, if A and B - intermediate, and if A, B and C - then we have an advanced level of English.

I was wondering if there exists the same test to find out what kind of Internet user you are? Because if not, there should be one, I think!

Will appreciate your messages about this issue,

Thanks a lot!

Anna Ivanova ivanova.re@gmail.com

PS. do not hesitate to contact me a bit later if you are also interested in this question, so that I can tell you what answers I got from this list.

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