Reading Competencies of Fourth-Grade Students: Comparing Print and Hypertext Literacies

• Main Authors: Andreas Voss, Inge Blatt, Wilfried Bos, Martin Goy, Lena Kraska, Michael Pfeifer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2009-08-01
• Series: Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
• Subjects: ICT; Reading Literacy; Pirls; Print And Hypertext Reading; Item Response Theory; Reading At The Computer
• Online Access: http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/KE855FG.pdf

This text presents an outline of research and publications on two studies comparing print and hypertext literacy of fourth-grade students. This set of studies, entitled Reading at the Computer (RaC), consists of two consecutive assessments: a pilot study (RaC–2001), conducted in 2001 as a supplement to the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS–2001), and an advanced study (RaC–2003), conducted in 2003 in the context of the first cycle of a longitudinal assessment in the Federal State of Hamburg, called Kompetenzen und Einstellungen von Schülerinnen und Schülern – Jahrgangsstufe 4 (KESS–4) 1 . KESS–4 applied, among other instruments, some of the tests and background questionnaires from PIRLS–2001.