{ "assessmentTests": { "digital_ethics_citizenship": { "subscales": { "data_privacy_and_misuse": { "name": "Data, Privacy & Misuse" }, "misinformation_and_ai_ethics": { "name": "Misinformation & AI Ethics" }, "digital_citizenship_and_social_media_safety": { "name": "Digital Citizenship & Social Media Safety" } }, "name": "Digital Ethics & Citizenship Test", "desc": "Work through 24 realistic online situations from middle-school life. Ten ask you to name what is actually wrong; the rest ask what you would do about it — a fast check of how you read personal data, unverified claims, AI tools and the people on the other side of a group chat.", "recommendation": "Your digital ethics and citizenship profile", "scope": { "title": "What this test measures — and what it does not", "measures": "How a student tends to choose among realistic response options in situations involving school technology, personal data, misinformation, AI tools, and social media: recognizing ethical issues such as data misuse and the spread of false information, and choosing safe, legal, and responsible digital behavior across three areas — Data, Privacy & Misuse; Misinformation & AI Ethics; and Digital Citizenship & Social Media Safety. Each scenario asks which response is best by common digital-citizenship practice, not which one is provably correct the way a math answer is.", "excludes": "This is not a behavior log or a monitoring tool: it does not track what a student actually does online, only which response they choose on a screen, and it cannot confirm they would act the same way with real friends, a real class, or a real device in front of them. It is not a safety screener — a low score does not mean a student is unsafe or at risk, and this test cannot detect or report an actual safety concern. It carries no legal advice: privacy law, copyright rules, and platform terms of service vary by country and by service, and no scenario should be read as a statement of what is legally required anywhere.", "standing": "This is an original JobCannon instrument, written for students in grades 6 through 8 and built to reflect published state career-and-technical-education criteria on ethical technology use and digital citizenship. It is not an accredited or certifying exam, and passing or failing it has no formal standing with any school, district, or employer. It is not affiliated with, licensed by, or derived from any named digital-citizenship curriculum or organization — every scenario, option, and explanation here was written for this test." }, "questions": [ { "question": "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.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Post her number to the group right away, since it is for a class list." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Share her number privately with the classmate, without telling her first." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Refuse to share any numbers, and never mention the request to your friend." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Ask your friend if she is okay with you sharing her number first." } ] }, { "question": "Someone posts in your class group chat that a popular app has been secretly recording everyone. Kids are already forwarding it to other chats. What is the main problem here?", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The claim is spreading before anyone checked where it came from." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The claim is about an app that only some people in the class even use." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The claim was posted by someone who is not actually in your class." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The claim is written in a way that sounds angry, not calm." } ] }, { "question": "Someone posts a mean comment about a classmate on your school's class page, and you see it happen in real time.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Like a kind reply that someone else already left and then move on." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Wait to see whether other people in the chat say something first." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Report it to a trusted adult and check in with your classmate." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Reply in the thread with an insult aimed back at whoever posted it." } ] }, { "question": "Your best friend forgot her school laptop password and asks you to just tell her yours so she can finish her assignment before class ends.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Explain that passwords stay private, and suggest she ask a teacher for help." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Tell her your password so she can log in and finish fast." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Type your password in for her, so she never actually sees it." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Let her use your account this once, since she is your best friend." } ] }, { "question": "A video going round your grade looks like a news report, and in it a well-known person says something that would be big news. No news site is covering it at all. What is the main problem here?", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "A video can be shared by people who never watched all of it themselves." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "A video can be posted before news sites have written it up." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "A video can be filmed somewhere other than where it says." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "A video can be made to look real when the event never happened." } ] }, { "question": "A homework group chat starts piling on one kid's answer, and more people are joining in every minute.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Add a laughing reaction so it looks like you agree with them." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Join in with a reply that mocks whoever started the pile-on." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Mute the chat and check back once it settles down." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Leave the chat and tell a trusted adult what happened." } ] }, { "question": "A free drawing app asks to read your contacts and see your exact location before it will finish installing on your tablet. What is the main problem here?", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The app is keeping your data long after you have stopped using it." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The app is asking for data it does not need to do its job." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The app is showing far more adverts than it first promised you." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The app is sharing your data with people that you already know." } ] }, { "question": "Your teacher's rules for this essay say you may use an AI tool to help you plan, but the writing itself has to be your own.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Have the chatbot write the whole essay for you and turn it in as your own work." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Use the chatbot to brainstorm ideas, then write the essay in your own words." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Rewrite the chatbot's essay just enough that it looks like your own." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Ask a friend to share the essay their chatbot already wrote for them." } ] }, { "question": "While playing a game online, a player you've never met asks to move from the group chat to a private one-on-one chat.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Switch to the private chat since it's just about the game." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Ignore the message but keep playing with that person in the group anyway." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Stay in the group chat and tell a trusted adult about the request." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Ask a friend in the game what they think you should do." } ] }, { "question": "You sit down at a library computer and notice the student who used it before you left their school email account open on the screen.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Read a few of the messages first, just to see whose account it is." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Leave the computer as is, and quietly move to a different one." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Log the account out, without opening or reading its messages." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Take a quick photo of the screen to show a friend later on." } ] }, { "question": "You ask an AI study helper about a date in history. It answers in full sentences and sounds completely certain. Your textbook gives a different date. What is the main problem here?", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "An AI tool can refuse to answer questions about history." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "An AI tool can sound certain and still give a wrong answer." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "An AI tool can give a different answer each time you ask." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "An AI tool can take longer than looking the fact up yourself." } ] }, { "question": "You take a funny picture of a friend at lunch and want to post it, but you haven't asked if that's okay with them.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Post the picture and untag your friend if they mind." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Post it to a private account only your close friends follow." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Ask your friend before you post the picture anywhere." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Ask a mutual friend whether they think it's fine to post." } ] }, { "question": "A free online quiz promises to guess your future job. Before it will show your results, it asks for your full name, your school and your birthday. What is the main problem here?", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The quiz result may not match the job you actually want." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The quiz takes far longer to finish than it first appeared to." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Details that identify you are the price of a quiz result." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The quiz shows adverts between each of its questions." } ] }, { "question": "An AI tool helped you organize the outline for a class project, and you are getting ready to turn in the final version to your teacher.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Turn in the project without mentioning that the AI tool helped at all." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Tell your teacher the whole outline was completely your own idea." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Turn in the project and note that an AI tool helped organize the outline." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Remove every part the AI touched, even the parts that are still good." } ] }, { "question": "You're about to post an angry rant about a mix-up with a school assignment, typed in all caps with harsh words about the teacher.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Wait until you're calm, then decide if it's worth posting." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Post it now since it matches how frustrated you feel." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Post it but set the privacy so only friends can see it." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Delete it tomorrow morning if anyone happens to bring it up." } ] }, { "question": "A friend messages you privately to complain that the coach changed practice times again. A teammate asks you to send a screenshot of it to the group chat. What is the main problem here?", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "A message would be edited so it no longer says what she wrote." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "A message meant for one person would reach a whole group." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "A message would be read weeks after she actually sent it out." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "A message would be saved onto a phone that is not your own." } ] }, { "question": "An article is shared round your class under a headline saying a local school is closing. The paragraphs underneath say one classroom is being repainted over the summer. What is the main problem here?", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The article was written by a student rather than an actual reporter." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The headline claims something far bigger than the article does." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The article is about a school in a different part of the country." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "The article was published long before anyone shared it around." } ] }, { "question": "For a class project, you find a great image and a paragraph online that fit perfectly, and the project is due tomorrow.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Use the image and paragraph as they are, but add the creator's name." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Copy the paragraph and change a few words so it looks different." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Ask a friend to write you a paragraph on the same topic instead." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Check what the licence allows, then use it that way and credit the creator." } ] }, { "question": "Your club collected everyone's email address so it could send meeting reminders. Another member now wants to use that same list to advertise her online store. What is the main problem here?", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Information given for one purpose would be used for another." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Information would be kept for far longer than the club needs it." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Information would be stored somewhere that it is easy to lose." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Information would be collected from people who never joined it." } ] }, { "question": "A picture is spreading in your grade under a caption saying it happened at your school this week. The picture has not been edited, but it was taken years ago at a different school. What is the main problem here?", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "A picture is being shared without asking the person who took it." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "A picture is being edited so it changes what it actually shows." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "A picture is being posted by an account nobody recognises." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "A real picture is being used to tell a story that is not true." } ] }, { "question": "You need to email your club leader about missing today's meeting, right after texting a friend the same news in all lowercase with slang.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Write the email with a greeting and a polite closing." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Copy the same text you sent your friend into the email." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Keep the email short with no greeting since the leader is busy." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Add a few emojis to the email so it feels more friendly." } ] }, { "question": "Your class takes a survey about study habits that everyone was told was anonymous. The results go up on the class page with each answer beside the name of the student who gave it. What is the main problem here?", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Answers promised to be anonymous can be traced to one student." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Answers were posted before every student finished the survey." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Answers were collected about a subject that is too personal." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Answers were counted wrongly when the results were added." } ] }, { "question": "An AI-made image shows a real classmate saying something they never said. It looks convincing, and it is starting to spread around school.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Send it to a few friends so they know not to believe it." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Leave a comment defending the classmate instead of reporting the image." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Wait to see if the image disappears on its own before doing anything." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Report the image to a trusted adult instead of forwarding it any further." } ] }, { "question": "A classmate shows you message after message from an account they don't recognize, all meant to make them nervous, and asks you not to tell anyone.", "options": [ { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Respect their wishes and check in with them privately instead." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Tell a trusted adult, even though your classmate asked you not to." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Help them block that one account and leave it at that." }, { "icon": "🧭", "label": "Wait to see if the messages stop before doing anything else." } ] } ], "results": { "developing": { "name": "Developing 🌱", "desc": "On this set of 24 situations you scored at or near the level someone would reach by guessing, so the result does not yet show which parts you have and which you have not. That is normal before a digital-citizenship unit — it is a starting point, not a verdict about you.", "recommendation": "Read the explanation under every question, including the ones you got right. They name the issue in each situation, which is the part worth carrying to the next one." }, "emerging": { "name": "Emerging 🧭", "desc": "You are clearly above guessing and you spotted the issue in a good share of the situations, but the ones you missed cluster rather than scatter — usually one of the three areas is noticeably behind the other two.", "recommendation": "Look at your three area scores rather than the total. The weakest one is where the next practice will pay, and the explanations for those questions are the shortest way in." }, "consistent": { "name": "Consistent 📗", "desc": "You named the ethical issue and picked a sound response across most of the test, and your misses are spread out rather than concentrated. This is the level where the reasoning is real and the gaps are specific.", "recommendation": "Go back to the handful you missed and read what made the tempting answer tempting. At this level that is where the remaining ground is." }, "strong": { "name": "Strong 🛡️", "desc": "You reliably separated the ethical issue from the surface details, and where the situation asked for a response you chose one that held up. Very few of the near-miss answers pulled you off.", "recommendation": "Try explaining two or three of these situations to someone younger. Being able to say why an answer is wrong out loud is the step past recognising it." }, "exemplary": { "name": "Exemplary 🏅", "desc": "You identified the issue in almost every situation and chose responses that hold up under the awkward details, including the questions built so the obvious answer is not the right one.", "recommendation": "The useful next move is not another quiz — it is the situations this test could not put in front of you. When one turns up in real life, the reasoning you used here is the same reasoning." } }, "retakePrompt": { "lastResult": "Your last result:", "evolvedHint": "Judgement online shifts with practice. This one is worth retaking after a digital-citizenship unit or a class discussion.", "retakeButton": "Retake this test" }, "optionOrderVersion": "b2fb053f60e59e4d" } }, "testNames": { "digital-ethics-citizenship": "Digital Ethics & Citizenship Test" } }