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Item ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS DIGITAL SKILL IN ETHIOPIAN HIGH SCHOOLS: (IN CASE OF EAST GUJI GIRJA WOREDA)(Hawassa University, 2024-04-14) FIROMSA DENUInformation and Communication Technology (ICT) is becoming increasingly important for sustainable development, in our daily lives and in our educational system. Therefore, there is a growing demand on educational institutions to integrate and use ICT for enhancing the teaching and learning process and for the students to acquire the necessary skills in this 21st century. ICT is the process of gathering, creating, processing, and storage of information by using hardware, software, as well as the internet and global system of mobile communication (GSM). Realizing the effect of ICT on the workplace and everyday life, today’s educational institutions try to restructure their educational curriculum and classroom facilities, in order to bridge the existing technology gap in teaching and learning especially in developing countries like Ethiopia .There exists problems in the inadequacy of exploiting ICT in secondary schools such as lack of the requisite skills and interest of the most teachers as well as lack of active participation digital skill use of student were the widely observed problems in Ethiopia in general and in selected secondary school of this study. Specifically, the objective of this study was focused to assessment of student digital skill in Ethiopian high schools (in case of East Guji Girja Woreda). The research design selected for this study is a descriptive analysis approach and the study areas of this research were East Guji Girja Woreda secondary schools located in Oromia region. The total population of the study was 231 Individuals and the sample size was 144 respondent i.e. 144 students selected using simple random sampling technique and 4 interviewees were selected using purposeful sampling method. Here, in order to collect data from the respondents, 26 questions of the questionnaire for 144 students, and 12 interview questions for 4 teachers were used. Then the data analysis mechanism was by using SPSS software package, and descriptive analysis. Majority of the responses gathered from the three tools shows that there was lack of knowledge and skill of ICT students. In this case, Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy , Social Influence , Facilitating Conditions , Behavioral Intention as well as Digital Skills were the independent variables while assessment of student practicing ICT digital skill was the dependent variable. Five mentioned variables have influenced on the Behavioral intention to use new technology. The result shows that there was highly unsatisfied in their learning and using ICT. The lack of attention to improve digital skill in the school and they exists weakness on the position of ICT resources and poor in developing skill students were the major findings