| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 教育社會學研究所 === 99 === The problem about digital gap is one of many things that the government is working on because it is likely to be a new factor to result in inequality of educational opportunity. However, by observing the educational scenes in junior high schools and the use of digital resources in teaching, I doubt that there is a relationship between digital gap and academic achievement. Therefore, with the junior high school students from Taiwan Education Panel Survey as samples, I analyze the effect of their using computers and Internet on their academic achievement, which could examine the relationship between digital gap and academic achievement.
Because the applying computers and Internet to teaching in junior high schools wasn’t frequent, the result shows that the more time the students spend on using computers, no matter what type it is, the worse their academic achievement is. This is because using computers and Internet would occupy their learning time, which has a negative effect on their academic achievement. In addition, there isn’t any systematic relationship between the frequency of using digital resources and socioeconomic backgrounds. This reveals that the digital gap among different socioeconomic backgrounds isn’t obvious. Instead, the parents with higher educational degree would restrict their children to the use of computers and Internet.
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