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September 17, 2026Social SciencesOpen Access

Development and Preliminary Validation of a Tool to Assess Trainee Teachers’ Perceptions and Use of Digital Sources in a Historical-Thinking Framework: A Conflict Context in Chile

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EVElizabeth Montanares VargasKBKarla Barria-PezoRJRodrigo Arturo Salazar Jiménez

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Overview

Validation study evaluates a questionnaire measuring digital source use among trainee teachers, highlighting tensions between online information consumption and historical inquiry.

Key Points

  • To develop and preliminarily validate a questionnaire assessing trainee teachers' perceptions, verification strategies, and use of digital sources regarding a regional socio-historical conflict within a historical-thinking framework.
  • Constructed a questionnaire framed by historical-thinking principles to evaluate digital source searching, reliability judgments, and verification strategies.
  • Established content validity through expert review using Aiken's V.
  • Piloted the questionnaire with N=28 pre-service History, Geography, and Social Sciences teachers in Chile to evaluate item performance, internal consistency, and item-total correlations.
  • Demonstrated initial content validity and psychometric performance across questionnaire items measuring digital source evaluation.
  • Identified distinct tensions between trainee teachers' digital information consumption habits and the disciplined construction of historical knowledge.

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Vargas et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aabb7275f706d05830e6099https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci15090631
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