Original 24-item situational questionnaire with our own key; not commonsense.org or Be Internet Awesome material, both of which are curricula rather than scored instruments. Scores recognition of an ethical issue, which is what 6.5 asks — not observed online conduct. Criterion-referenced bands, no norming sample and no percentile.
Free digital citizenship test for grades 6-8: 24 online situations scored on data and privacy, misinformation and AI ethics, and how you treat people online.
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Yes, and no. All twenty-four situations, your overall band, all three area scores and the explanation behind every situation are part of the same free result — there is no payment step and no signup wall between you and any of it.
It was written for grades 6-8, and every situation is set in middle-school life: a class project, a group chat, a school laptop, a homework app. The reading level is checked rather than assumed. Older students and adults can take it, but the scenarios will read as young, because they were built for a specific age band rather than made generic to fit everyone.
Each situation offers four options and one of them is keyed. Your score is the percentage you match, and that percentage sets one of five bands. Clicking at random on a four-option test lands on about 25%, so the lowest band deliberately covers everything up to 44%: a score you could have got without reading the questions must not come back describing you as average.
Because naming the problem is a separate skill from responding to it, and the moment a question says an app "only needs your pictures but asks for your contacts too", it has already done the naming for you. Those ten give you the facts with nothing flagged, and the four options are candidate problems — three of them real issues that are simply the wrong issue for that situation.
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Free digital citizenship test for grades 6-8: 24 online situations scored on data and privacy, misinformation and AI ethics, and how you treat people online.
The Digital Ethics & Citizenship test puts you in twenty-four situations that actually happen online — a free app that wants your whole camera roll, a video of a politician that no news site seems to be reporting, a group chat that has turned on one person. Ten of the twenty-four do not ask what you would do at all. They lay out the facts, name nothing, and ask what the real problem is, with four candidate problems to choose between. The other fourteen ask what you would do next. The split is deliberate: noticing that something is wrong and knowing what to do about it are different skills, and a test that only asks the second one has already handed you the answer to the first inside the question.
Your answers are scored in three areas. Data, Privacy & Misuse is about information that belongs to people — what an app collects, who else ends up holding it, how long it is kept, and what changes when the information is a classmate's rather than your own. Misinformation & AI Ethics is about claims you cannot check at a glance, images and video that can now be generated on demand, and the honesty questions that come with using an AI tool for schoolwork. Digital Citizenship & Social Media Safety is about the people on the other side of the screen: asking before you post someone, what to do when a group chat turns cruel, and when a situation stops being one you should handle by yourself.
You get an overall band, a separate score for each of the three areas, and a one-line explanation of every situation you read differently from the key. The bands are written against the content rather than against other people: this test has no norming sample and reports no percentile, so it never places you relative to anyone else. It also cannot tell you whether someone is safe online. A low score means specific situations were read wrong and names which ones — a starting point for a lesson or a conversation, not a verdict about a person.
Your overall band, from developing to exemplary, in plain language
Your Data, Privacy & Misuse score — what you notice about information that belongs to other people
Your Misinformation & AI Ethics score — how you handle a claim you cannot check and an AI tool you could have hidden
Your Digital Citizenship & Social Media Safety score — how you treat the people on the other side of the screen
Which of the twenty-four situations you read differently from the key, each with a one-line reason
The one area worth working on first, named rather than implied
A friend gives you her phone number so you can text her about homework, and a classmate in your group chat asks you to post everyone's number so the class can make a contact list.
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Original 24-item situational questionnaire with our own key; not commonsense.org or Be Internet Awesome material, both of which are curricula rather than scored instruments. Scores recognition of an ethical issue, which is what 6.5 asks — not observed online conduct. Criterion-referenced bands, no norming sample and no percentile.
Free digital citizenship test for grades 6-8: 24 online situations scored on data and privacy, misinformation and AI ethics, and how you treat people online.
No signup needed — your result appears instantly.
Yes, and no. All twenty-four situations, your overall band, all three area scores and the explanation behind every situation are part of the same free result — there is no payment step and no signup wall between you and any of it.
It was written for grades 6-8, and every situation is set in middle-school life: a class project, a group chat, a school laptop, a homework app. The reading level is checked rather than assumed. Older students and adults can take it, but the scenarios will read as young, because they were built for a specific age band rather than made generic to fit everyone.
Each situation offers four options and one of them is keyed. Your score is the percentage you match, and that percentage sets one of five bands. Clicking at random on a four-option test lands on about 25%, so the lowest band deliberately covers everything up to 44%: a score you could have got without reading the questions must not come back describing you as average.
Because naming the problem is a separate skill from responding to it, and the moment a question says an app "only needs your pictures but asks for your contacts too", it has already done the naming for you. Those ten give you the facts with nothing flagged, and the four options are candidate problems — three of them real issues that are simply the wrong issue for that situation.
