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Children and Young People 's Home
Use of ICT for Educational Purposes:
The Impact on Attainment at Key Stages 1-4
Professor Gill Valentine (University of Leeds), Dr Jackie Marsh,
Professor Charles Pattie (both University of Sheffield) and BMRB
Research Report RR672
Research Report
No 672
Children and Young People’s Home
Use of ICT for Educational Purposes:
The Impact on Attainment at Key Stages 1-4
Professor Gill Valentine (University of Leeds), Dr Jackie Marsh,
Professor Charles Pattie (both University of Sheffield) and BMRB
The views expressed in this report are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department for Education and Skills.
© University of Leeds 2005
ISBN 1 84478 552 1
1
Contents
Page Number
Executive Summary
4
Section 1: Introduction
11
1.1 Context
11
1.2 Objectives of this study
12
1.3 Methodology
13
Section 2: Access
16
2.1 Patterns of access to a home computer
16
2.2 Independent access to a home computer
18
2.3 Access to other hardware in households
19
Section 3: Patterns of Use
20
3.1 Parental restrictions on use
20
3.2 Variations in use
21
3.3 Educational patterns of use
26
3.4 Subject and year group specific patterns of use
30
3.5 Leisure uses of ICT
40
3.6 Variations or patterns of leisure use
43
Section 4: Home – School Links
46
4.1 Teachers setting homework
47
4.2 Pupils’ use of school web sites
48
4.3 Differences in home/ school uses of ICT
50
4.4 Parents’ contact with schools
52
4.5 Teachers’ views on home/ school issues
54
Section 5: Perceptions of How ICT Can Contribute to 60
Learning and Attainment
5.1 Support at home
60
5.2 Children’s attitudes to homework
63
5.3 Children’s perceptions of ICT
65
5.4 Children’s reasons for using ICT for school work outside 67 of home
2
5.5 Children’s perceptions of ICT and
Children and Young People 's Home
Use of ICT for Educational Purposes:
The Impact on Attainment at Key Stages 1-4
Professor Gill Valentine (University of Leeds), Dr Jackie Marsh,
Professor Charles Pattie (both University of Sheffield) and BMRB
Research Report RR672
Research Report
No 672
Children and Young People’s Home
Use of ICT for Educational Purposes:
The Impact on Attainment at Key Stages 1-4
Professor Gill Valentine (University of Leeds), Dr Jackie Marsh,
Professor Charles Pattie (both University of Sheffield) and BMRB
The views expressed in this report are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department for Education and Skills.
© University of Leeds 2005
ISBN 1 84478 552 1
1
Contents
Page Number
Executive Summary
4
Section 1: Introduction
11
1.1 Context
11
1.2 Objectives of this study
12
1.3 Methodology
13
Section 2: Access
16
2.1 Patterns of access to a home computer
16
2.2 Independent access to a home computer
18
2.3 Access to other hardware in households
19
Section 3: Patterns of Use
20
3.1 Parental restrictions on use
20
3.2 Variations in use
21
3.3 Educational patterns of use
26
3.4 Subject and year group specific patterns of use
30
3.5 Leisure uses of ICT
40
3.6 Variations or patterns of leisure use
43
Section 4: Home – School Links
46
4.1 Teachers setting homework
47
4.2 Pupils’ use of school web sites
48
4.3 Differences in home/ school uses of ICT
50
4.4 Parents’ contact with schools
52
4.5 Teachers’ views on home/ school issues
54
Section 5: Perceptions of How ICT Can Contribute to 60
Learning and Attainment
5.1 Support at home
60
5.2 Children’s attitudes to homework
63
5.3 Children’s perceptions of ICT
65
5.4 Children’s reasons for using ICT for school work outside 67 of home
2
5.5 Children’s perceptions of ICT and
References: attainment at school. It is based on research conducted in the summer term, 2004, in 12 schools in England