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Naevdal, Folkvard – Computers & Education, 2007
This article investigates the relation between home computer use and performance in English at school. The sample consists of 656 tenth-class students (age 15-16) in upper-secondary schools in Bergen, Norway. Data collection took place in the spring of 2002 and was administrated by the county education office. After correcting for gender, subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Difficulties, Females, Males
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Scrase, Richard – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1997
Scanners linked to computers with speech synthesizers are used by the visually impaired. A study of 13 sighted children needing additional help in reading determined that such systems provide benefit for children with "global" reading delay, are more effective improving reading than spelling, and are of little value for children with…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education