It is well known that Digital Competence is more and more important in today’s society. The European Union institutions have made great efforts to better define this concept and solicited the member countries into spreading and improving ideas on this topic.
On the other hand, it has to be noted that the practical implementations of this concept available until now for the assessment of the Digital Competence only partially succeed in answering the needs and expectations of people and institutions. The success of the many licences available today for access to the right skills in computer use (ECDL first of all) are an indirect demonstration of the prevalence of a business model (i.e., to learn how to use a special software product), which has little or no educational value at all.
Recently the need for a better definition of the meaning of Digital Competence and the shifting of focus from technical knowledge to cognitive and educational aspects of the involvment of ICT in the teaching-learning phenomena led researchers and scientists to start deeper studies into this topic (e.g., the Panel made from ETS, the Educational Testing Service, in 2002 and the tests being carried out in PISA).
This web site and the instruments within it come on the wake of this recent orientation. We aim at making an easy to use test for High School students, yet without forgetting younger students (13 - 16 age). The test will easily let the students know if they have the right technological skills and will help the teachers in developing the right teaching activities to enable students to acquire them.