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Conference Paper: Home computing and digital equity in education: a Hong Kong story
Title | Home computing and digital equity in education: a Hong Kong story |
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Issue Date | 2014 |
Citation | The 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, PA., 3-7 April 2014. How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper seeks to examine the gender and socioeconomic differences in students’ use of information and communication technology (ICT) at home. It presents research findings of a territory-wide survey of 826 eighth-graders from 36 secondary schools in Hong Kong. Results indicate that significant gender as well as socioeconomic effects on students’ home computing, in particular SES differences in access and use, learning-related usage, and parenting practices in encouragement, and gender differences in learning-related usage, and parenting practices in encouragement and worry. This raises the question of whether the digital inequity has been resolved at a time when education policy makers and schools have already committed to taking bold steps to extensively utilize ICT in education in Hong Kong. |
Description | Meeting Theme: The Power of Education Research for Innovation in Practice and Policy |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206067 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Yuen, HK | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lau, WWF | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Park, JH | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lau, GKK | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, AKM | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-20T12:03:39Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-10-20T12:03:39Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, PA., 3-7 April 2014. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206067 | - |
dc.description | Meeting Theme: The Power of Education Research for Innovation in Practice and Policy | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper seeks to examine the gender and socioeconomic differences in students’ use of information and communication technology (ICT) at home. It presents research findings of a territory-wide survey of 826 eighth-graders from 36 secondary schools in Hong Kong. Results indicate that significant gender as well as socioeconomic effects on students’ home computing, in particular SES differences in access and use, learning-related usage, and parenting practices in encouragement, and gender differences in learning-related usage, and parenting practices in encouragement and worry. This raises the question of whether the digital inequity has been resolved at a time when education policy makers and schools have already committed to taking bold steps to extensively utilize ICT in education in Hong Kong. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, AERA 2014 | en_US |
dc.title | Home computing and digital equity in education: a Hong Kong story | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Yuen, HK: hkyuen@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Lau, WWF: wwflau@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Park, JH: jaepark@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Chan, AKM: kwai4444@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Yuen, HK=rp00983 | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Lau, WWF=rp01723 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 240844 | en_US |