期刊名称：International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology
电子版ISSN：1814-0556
出版年度：2014
卷号：10
期号：1
页码：41-54
出版社：University of the West Indies
摘要：Recent research has suggested presence o f a significant relationship between prevalence of online reading and reading literacy. In this study we examined the prevalence of online reading among 15 - year old students in Qatar using a national ly representative sample of 8, 089 students. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted at the item and scale levels in order to understand the relationship of online readi ng activities with computer use for schoolwork and entertainment , and demographic differences such as gender , grade and socioeconomic status. Our results suggest small but significant differences in mean prevalence of online reading between boys and girls . Prevalence of o nline reading was found to be strongly associated with both entertainment - and schoolwork - related use of computers at home but weakly associated with computer use at school . Implications were discussed
