Online literacy 'above average' [IrishTimes]
- Published: 28 June 2011
Irish teenagers are above average at reading digital and online texts, according to an OECD educational study.
The latest volume of the organisation’s Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) measured the ability of 15-year-old students to read, understand and apply digital texts, including e-mails and websites.
It found Irish teenagers ranked seventh out of 16 OECD states behind South Korea, New Zealand, Australia and Japan but above countries like Belgium, Norway and France.
The above-average result contrasts with the poor performance of Irish students in the traditional paper-based literacy tests, published by the OECD last year.
The former study found Irish 15-year-olds had fallen from fifth to 19th in the literacy rankings, the steepest decline of any developed country.
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