Students fare better reading from screen than paper [Independent.ie]
- Published: 29 June 2011
IRISH teenagers perform better in computer-based reading tests rather than those involving the printed word.
They are significantly above average in an international digital literacy league, after a test of their comprehension of texts such as emails and web pages.
But Education Minister Ruairi Quinn admitted yesterday that there was still cause for concern about reading standards among Irish 15 year olds.
Mr Quinn said: "A decline has occurred in reading standards in Ireland over the last decade."
Experts at the Educational Research Centre (ERC) in Drumcondra, Dublin, are studying the results of a new survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and trying to understand why students did better on the digital test than on the pencil and paper test.
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