Developing the Indicators of e-Decision Making Competence for College Students

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The decision-making competence has become the inevitable tendency in information communication technology. Schools today focus on how to raise student’s e-decision making competence. The purposes of this research are (1) to define the e-decision making competence of students major in computer science should attain; (2) to establish the indicators of e-decision making competence. The indicator content of e-decision making competence is identified through literature review. Then the Hermeneutics methodology is applied to construct the indicators. The finding indicates that indicators include seven competences in terms of information definition, information access, information assessment, information management, information conformity, information innovation and information dissemination.

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