Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

The ECDL Foundation have published a new position paper showing the danger of relying on self-assessment to demonstrate digital skills.

How do you measure digital skills? How do you work out whether a candidate for a job has the skills and competences that they will need to do the work? Letting people self-assess their skills can seem like a simple solution, but it brings a big risk that they will misjudge their abilities.