A Study of Problem-solving Ability in Science and Technology Innovation Courses Under the IPO Framework: Digital Literacy as A Mediator

Science and technology innovation education is an important aspect of youth quality education. Promoting students’ problem-solving and innovation abilities through science and technology innovation activities has become an important issue that educators need to face nowadays. Based on the input-process-outcome (IPO) framework, this paper constructed a hypothetical model of the influence mechanism of students’ problem-solving ability. And we analyzed based on 1,092 survey data from a region in Wuhan, China, to verify the validity of the model. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the science and technology innovation courses (STIC) needed to be further strengthened. STIC had a significant impact on students’ problem-solving ability; digital literacy as a process variable played a mediating role between the STIC and problem-solving ability, which significantly improved students’ problem-solving ability.