Internet use for school and in leisure time and its connection to Computer and Information Literacy in 8th grade students

Werlen, Egon and Zimmermann, Barbara (2015) Internet use for school and in leisure time and its connection to Computer and Information Literacy in 8th grade students. In: Conference: European Conference on Education Research - ECER 2015, 7th - 11th September 2015, Budapest, Hungary.

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Abstract

The objectives of this research with 8th grade students are to find different groups of Internet use and to analyse the influence of their Internet use on computer and information literacy (CIL). Data for this paper are from the sample collected for ICILS 2013 in Switzerland. The values for CIL are part of the international study, the Internet use for school and leisure time of the national supplementary study within ICILS 2013. The sample consists of 3225 8th grade students (48% girls) with a mean age of 14.69 years. Because of drop outs and not responding of questions this paper bases on 3050 students (95%). The most frequent Internet use for school is information seeking (at least once a month). Internet use in leisure time is generally much higher (information search, communication, entertainment all at least once a week). The sample was divided with a cluster analysis (quick cluster, Wart method) of the fife purposes of Internet use for school into three groups: frequent users (26%), information and entertainment users (22%), and rare users (52%). Independently, there were found three groups for leisure time Internet use: frequent users (58%), communication and entertainment users (25%), and rare users (17%). The frequent Internet users for school show the highest CIL (537 points), significantly different from the information/entertainment users (515 points) and (in the unweighted sample) the rare users (523 points). A similar pattern results for leisure time Internet use: The frequent users have the highest values on CIL (534 points), significantly different from communication/entertainment users (514 points) and rare users (513 points).

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