%0 Journal Article %1 Hakkarainen2000103 %A Hakkarainen, Kai %A Ilomäki, Liisa %A Lipponen, Lasse %A Muukkonen, Hanni %A Rahikainen, Marjaana %A Tuominen, Taneli %A Lakkala, Minna %A Lehtinen, Erno %D 2000 %J Computers & Education %K education ictskills %N 2 %P 103 - 117 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0360-1315(00)00007-5 %T Students’ skills and practices of using ICT: results of a national assessment in Finland %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131500000075 %V 34 %X The purpose of the study was to investigate Finnish elementary and high school students’ skills and practices of using the new information and communication technologies (ICT). Beliefs about the importance of \ICT\ were also assessed. Five hundred and fifteen students responded to a self-report questionnaire. The students attended 25 schools that used \ICT\ intensively and represented all provinces of Finland. From the analysis, there emerged three factors that represented these students’ relationships to ICT. Characteristic of the first factor was a belief that computer supported learning makes learning more meaningful and encourages one to make more efforts to study. Self-reported competence in using \ICT\ was strongly loaded on the second factor, together with intensive reported use of \ICT\ at home as well as networking with expert cultures and coaching of other people to improve their \ICT\ skills. The third factor represented intensity of using \ICT\ at school and appears to be determined more by the availability of equipment and the extent to which \ICT\ is used in the school than by a student’s expertise in ICT.

@article{Hakkarainen2000103, abstract = {The purpose of the study was to investigate Finnish elementary and high school students’ skills and practices of using the new information and communication technologies (ICT). Beliefs about the importance of \{ICT\} were also assessed. Five hundred and fifteen students responded to a self-report questionnaire. The students attended 25 schools that used \{ICT\} intensively and represented all provinces of Finland. From the analysis, there emerged three factors that represented these students’ relationships to ICT. Characteristic of the first factor was a belief that computer supported learning makes learning more meaningful and encourages one to make more efforts to study. Self-reported competence in using \{ICT\} was strongly loaded on the second factor, together with intensive reported use of \{ICT\} at home as well as networking with expert cultures and coaching of other people to improve their \{ICT\} skills. The third factor represented intensity of using \{ICT\} at school and appears to be determined more by the availability of equipment and the extent to which \{ICT\} is used in the school than by a student’s expertise in ICT. }, added-at = {2015-06-02T13:37:42.000+0200}, author = {Hakkarainen, Kai and Ilomäki, Liisa and Lipponen, Lasse and Muukkonen, Hanni and Rahikainen, Marjaana and Tuominen, Taneli and Lakkala, Minna and Lehtinen, Erno}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/29f44a76b03b739e5810429ae7ecf54f8/kajufalc}, description = {Students’ skills and practices of using ICT: results of a national assessment in Finland}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0360-1315(00)00007-5}, interhash = {e9007d7bac8a0c16ce4d36605e200fac}, intrahash = {9f44a76b03b739e5810429ae7ecf54f8}, issn = {0360-1315}, journal = {Computers & Education }, keywords = {education ictskills}, number = 2, pages = {103 - 117}, timestamp = {2015-06-08T11:52:24.000+0200}, title = {Students’ skills and practices of using ICT: results of a national assessment in Finland }, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131500000075}, volume = 34, year = 2000 }