Previous research on the relationship between students' home and school Information and Communication Technology (ICT) resources and academic performance has shown ambiguous results. The availability of ICT resources at school has been found to be unrelated or negatively related to academic performance, whereas the availability of ICT resources at…

The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's (IEA) mission is to enhance knowledge about education systems worldwide, and to provide high-quality data that will support education reform and lead to better teaching and learning in schools. In pursuit of this aim, it conducts, and reports on, major studies of student…

This survey follows the Digital Education Action Plan Communication's call to provide more evidence regarding digitisation in education. By surveying head teachers, teachers, students and parents from EU28, Norway, Iceland and Turkey, this survey provides detailed information related to access, use and attitudes towards the use of technology in…

The purpose of this study was to determine if there are cross-national factors that account for students' computer know-how. The data used in the study were collected in the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement study on computers in education. In 1992, data were collected in seven different countries about the…

This document focuses on gender differences in information and computer literacy (ICL) and on the role of education in producing such differences. The effects of the curriculum materials used and of teaching behavior in ICL lessons are considered in relation to changes in girls' and boys' attitudes, knowledge, and future plans while following an…