PISA 2003 Australia

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This report presents results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003, and examines how extensive access to ICT is in schools, homes and other places, how familiar students nearing the end of compulsory education are with ICT and how well they feel they use the technologies that are available. This report complements the 2005 OECD report Are students ready for a technology-rich world?: What PISA studies tell us, which provided a profile of ICT use for the OECD and partner countries who participated in the ICT Literacy option in PISA 2003. This Australian report also looks at aspects of the so called `digital divide', examining access and use of ICT in Australia by state', by gender, by Indigenous background, by socioeconomic background and by geographic location. These characteristics are compared to how well students performed in mathematics, the main area of student performance in PISA 2003. The report shows that all Australian students have access to a computer at school, and most also have access to a computer at home. However fewer Indigenous students and fewer students from the lowest level of socioeconomic background have access at home. Students with access to a computer at home and those who used their computer at home frequently achieved at a higher level in mathematics than those students with no such access. [p.vii].

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