Students, Computers and Learning Making the Connection - PISA 2012 - PUBLICATIONS

Back – and looking ahead – to school

by Andreas Schleicher
Director, Directorate for Education and Skills

OECD

15 Sep 2015, 12:00 AM UTC

Students, Computers and Learning: Making the Connection (Andreas Schleicher, (Director, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills) from OECD Education

Students, Computers and Learning Making the Connection - PISA 2012

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PISA Digital Skills

Are there computers in the classroom? Does it matter? Students, Computers and Learning: Making the Connection examines how students’ access to and use of information and communication technology (ICT) devices has evolved in recent years, and explores how education systems and schools are integrating ICT into students’ learning experiences. Based on results from PISA 2012, the report discusses differences in access to and use of ICT – what are collectively known as the "digital divide" – that are related to students’ socio-economic status, gender, geographic location, and the school a child attends. The report highlights the importance of bolstering students’ ability to navigate through digital texts. It also examines the relationship among computer access in schools, computer use in classrooms, and performance in the PISA assessment. As the report makes clear, all students first need to be equipped with basic literacy and numeracy skills so that they can participate fully in the hyper-connected, digitised societies of the 21st century.

Table of Contents

  - Foreword and Acknowledgements

  - Executive Summary

  - Reader's Guide

  - How Students' Use of Computers has Evolved in Recent Years

  - Integrating Information and Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning

  - Main Results from the PISA 2012 Computer-Based Assessments

  - The Importance of Navigation in Online Reading: Think, then Click

  - Inequalities in Digital Proficiency: Bridging the Divide

  - How Computers are Related to Students' Performance

  - Using Log-File Data to Understand What Drives Performance in PISA (Case Study)

  - Implications of Digital Technology for Education Policy and Practice

  - Technical notes on analyses in this volume

  - List of tables available on line