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    Measuring children's perceptions of their use of the Internet: A rasch analysis

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    Authors
    Johnson, Genevieve
    Cavanagh, Rob
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Johnson, Genevieve M. and Cavanagh, Robert F. 2012. Measuring children's perceptions of their use of the Internet: A rasch analysis, in Wright, Jan (ed), AARE-APERA 2012 The Joint Australian Association for Research in Education and Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association Conference, 2-6 Dec 2012, pp. 1-9. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE).
    Source Title
    AARE 2012 Conference Proceedings & Program
    Source Conference
    AARE-APERA 2012 The Joint Australian Association for Research in Education and Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association Conference
    Additional URLs
    http://www.aare.edu.au/data/publications/2012/Johnson12.pdf
    ISSN
    1324-9320
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36247
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Measuring children’s use of emerging technologies is prerequisite to determining the effect of such use on children’s health, development and learning. The Ecological Techno-Microsystem provides a theoretical foundation upon which to select test items appropriate to the measurement of children’s self-reported use of the internet across home, school and community contexts. A 15 item rating scale was developed which included five items across the three environments, for example: 1) I use the internet at home; 2) I use email at school; 3) I instant message at home; 4) At home, I use the internet to play games; 5) I visit websites when I am at somebody else’s house. Ninety children rated each of the 15 items on a four-category response scale. Individual item fit statistics confirmed that data from all 15 items fitted the model well. Differential Item Functioning, consistent with empirical evidence, suggested gender differences in patterns of internet use during childhood. Rasch analysis (i.e., Item Map) confirmed that children with the highest self-reported internet use scores on the 15 item rating scale affirmed the most difficult items, that is, the items to which the that fewest children responded in the affirmative.

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