An Investigation Of Primary School Students' Digital Reading Literacy

With the development of information and communication technology,the environment and background of children's learning and life have changed.The definition of reading literacy has expanded from traditional notions of reading and writing to include the ability to learn,understand and communicate effectively with technology.So digital reading Literacy has aroused researchers' wide concern.To investigate the state and influencing factors of Chinese students' digital reading literacy,can tell education administrators and teachers how to improving the teaching quality,and narrow the "digital gap".This study firstly defined the connotation and structural dimensions of digital reading literacy.Then author developed an electronic assessment platform and optimized it based on the trial test's results.And the formal experiments startd in November.In order to improve the representativeness of the sample,the research cluster sampled in a city school,an urban school and a rural schools in Chonqing respectively,which collected 282 valid samples.Based on the Item Response Theory's Rasch model,auther use Winsteps software to transform the raw score to logits score,which represent the observed value of students' digital reading literacy.Combined with the statistical analysis results of SPSS software,this study found that the digital reading literacy of primary school students is in low and middle level.Overall,the average logits score of boys was slightly higher than that of girls,but there was no statistical significance.And city students,urban students and rural students' digital reading literacy decreased successively,with significant differences among groups.In terms of each cognitive process of digital reading,students perform better in locating and extracting information and understanding and infer information,but they perform less well in interpreting and integrating ideas.However,their ability to critique and evaluate texts is worst.Boys perform better than girls in locating and extracting information,interpreting and integrating ideas,critique and evaluate texts.Moreover,there is a statistically significant difference between boys and girls in their ability to integrate and integrate ideas.The performance of groups in different regions in these four cognitive processes is always city students better than urban students,and urban students better than rural students.In order to explain the assessment results more thoroughly,this study then explores the factors that influence students' digital reading literacy.Firstly,five potential influencing factors were proposed,including family digital resources,reading self-efficacy,computer use self-efficacy,family learning resources and computer use time,were determined based on the results of existing influencing factors.Secondly,the observed values of each factor were obtained through questionnaire survey.By Cronbach Alpha analysis,the questionnaire reflects high reliability and validity.Then used SPSS software to establish a multiple factor linear regression model between influencing factors and digital reading literacy.The model indicated that family digital resources,reading self-efficacy,computer self-efficacy and family learning resources have positive impacts on Primary School Students' digital reading literacy.But there is negative correlation between digital reading literacy and the amount of time students spend on computers.Finally,based on the results of this investigation and analysis,author proposed that promote fairness in education by balancing resources allocation of urban and rural schools.Set up educational cloud platforms and provide online learning opportunities for every student.More importantly,optimize the quality of online learning is the foundation of U-learning.Ensure students have rich digital reading experience while control the time spending online.Our reading assessment needs focus on high-ranking reading comprehension competence to promote Chinese curriculum reform.And teachers also need to change their teaching concept,make use of Paper textbooks to develop primary school students' digital reading literacy.