Survey and Online reading tests
Just finished the expanded version of my research plan and I will discuss this with my university tutor dr Amber Walraven at the end of this week. Then we will take the next steps.
I also have to talk to the people who gave me grants to get money for the next year. This is the least pleasant task.
This year I will design and do a survey in which I ask teachers about their knowledge, attitudes and classroom practice related to Digital Literacy. The teacher will be one of the variables I will look at when I try to understand the Digital Literacy of secondary school students. Will talk more in detail about this later.
Request: do you know of any valid and usable instruments I could look at or use? Please let me know.
The other thing I’m working on is designing and / or choosing an instrument to measure digital literacy of secondary school students. I would like to test my students at the end 2012 or beginning 2013. After that I will relate this test to their scores on a standard reading comprehension test.
Julie Coiro, Donald Leu and colleagues have already designed and tested an interesting instrument, ORCA. I have contact with Julie Coiro on this. She was very helpful in providing me with recent articles and ORCA materials . See Coiro and Kennedey (2011) for more information. I will look at the ORCA instruments carefully.
But I will look at the PISA 2006 instrument too. I am interested in the differences and similarities of ORCA and PISA, in able to decide what is most useful for me. I contacted some people from PISA but it seems to be much more difficult to get more detailed information on that. Help is welcome.
Coiro, J. L., & Kennedy, C. (2011). The Online Reading Comprehension Assessment (ORCA) Project
Posted on January 24, 2012, in general and tagged digital literacy, reading comprehension test, secondary school students, survey, teachers. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
Hi Jeroen, how are you defining ‘digital literacy’?
Hi Doug Reading your thesis your question ‘ Hi Jeroen, how are you defining ‘digital literacy’ is very hard to answer. I will take a stand in this soon.
PISA 2009:
http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/55/48270093.pdf
Sample tasks: (user name: public, password: access) http://erasq.acer.edu.au/
Summary of the outcomes: http://www.erc.ie/documents/p09digital_reading_literacy_summary.pdf
Gey Merchant, UKLA book writer, blog on digital literacy
http://myvedana.blogspot.com
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