ICT Self-Efficacy and ICT Interest Mediate the Gender Differences in Digital Reading: A Multilevel Serial Mediation Analysis

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https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v17i05.25691

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gender differences, ICT interest, ICT self-efficacy, mediation analysis, PISA reading

Abstract


With an increasing number of information has disseminated in the digital form, digital reading, a sub-construct of ICT literacy, is significant for young generations to succeed in the digital era. gender differences, however is ob-served in students’ digital reading performance which calls for meticulous ex-amination. This study aimed to explore whether ICT self-efficacy and ICT in-terest could explain the gender differences in digital reading, and how ICT self-efficacy and ICT interest are associated in explaining the gender differ-ences in digital reading. Data from 6,173 samples from 192 schools in Estonia who took part in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 were collected. Multilevel serial mediation analysis showed that both ICT self-efficacy and ICT interest mediated the gender differences in digital reading, the lower level of ICT self-efficacy and ICT interest girls had could explain the decrease of their digital reading performance. Results also indicat-ed that girls were not inherently less interested in ICT, and the seemingly less ICT interest girls had was largely owing to their lower level of ICT self-efficacy shaped by the general sex-role stereotype of computer use. Pedagogi-cal intervention on strengthening girls’ ICT self-efficacy was suggested to in-crease girls ICT interest and their digital reading performance to empower them in the digital era.

Author Biographies

Hangyan Yu, Zhejiang University

Miss. Hangyan Yu is a Master’s student, supervised by Prof. Jie Hu, studying at the Department of Linguistics, the School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. Her research interests lie in second language acquisition, computer-assisted English language learning, and educational data mining. E-mail: yhyan@zju.edu.cn

Jie Hu, Zhejiang University

Professor Jie Hu, Ph.D., is a professor working at the Department of Linguis-tics, the School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. She has been focusing on English language education for more than 10 years after her Ph.D. graduation from the University of Warwick, U.K. Her re-search interests include ICT-based English language education, second language acquisition, educational data mining and learning analysis. E-mail: huj@zju.edu.cn
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2022-03-14

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Yu, H., & Hu, J. (2022). ICT Self-Efficacy and ICT Interest Mediate the Gender Differences in Digital Reading: A Multilevel Serial Mediation Analysis. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 17(05), pp. 211–225. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v17i05.25691

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Vol. 17 No. 05 (2022)

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