Perceived Digital Competence of Vocational Training Teachers in Valencia

The digital teaching competence in the Education of the 21st century is essential to obtain the maximum performance of the teaching processes, facilitate learning and favor the students’ digital competence. This paper aims to identify the degree of self-perceived digital competence of teachers belonging to regulated Vocational Training, corresponding to the Department of Education (province of Valencia, Valencian Region). The sample is made up of 52 teachers related to training cycles from the professional families of Transport and Maintenance of Vehicles, Health and Sociocultural Services. A quantitative methodology is utilized, exploratory-descriptive non-experimental, using as an instrument the adaptation to Spanish of the questionnaire "DigCompEdu Check-In". The results show that, despite the small sample of participants, the teachers of regulated Vocational Training in the province of Valencia are at a medium competence level (integrative and expert) As limitations of the work, we find the small sample of participating teachers, although in prospective, the authors of this research consider it important to extend the study to the Valencian Region.