Scale for the Assessment of Non-Experts' AI Literacy.
SNAIL
Self-reported AI literacy for non-experts. Three subscales: Technical Understanding, Critical Appraisal, Practical Application (programming/advanced technical skills explicitly not assessed).
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 31 items. 7-point Likert (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- English and German; further adaptations emerging; ~few langs, approx
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Laupichler, M. C., Aster, A., Haverkamp, N., & Raupach, T. (2023). Development of the 'Scale for the assessment of non-experts' AI literacy' (SNAIL) - an exploratory factor analysis. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 12, 100338.
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