[CC] Teens, Education and Computer Use at Home Survey 2002

[George(s) Lessard]

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Globe and Mail Update
Friday, August 30
spacePCs, Internet score top grades: Study


TORONTO, Aug. 30 - Computers and the Internet are scoring top grades as 
homework-helping tools, with Canadian parents and teens alike citing 
'better access to information,' 'more efficient use of homework time,' 'gr=
eat 
preparation for university,' and 'heightened desire to learn,' as just som=
e of 
the benefits of home PC ownership, according to a new study sponsored by 
chip maker Intel Canada. 
The Teens, Education and Computer Use at Home Survey 2002, conducted 
by Ipsos-NPD Canada, shows that a computer with Internet access has 
become an invaluable homework-helping resource for Canadian kids, the 
company said.
Nine out of ten parents surveyed said that having a computer and Internet 
access has had a positive impact on their child's learning ability, with 7=
8 per 
cent also believing it has improved the quality of their child's homework.=
 
Teens with Internet access are now spending over half (57 per cent) of the=
ir 
total homework time on the computer gathering information for school 
assignments and writing reports and papers, up from 42 per cent in 1999, 
when the survey was last conducted.
Today's teens claim to spend an average of six hours per week doing their 
homework (down from 7.6 hours in 1999), with girls spending an average of 
6.7 hours and boys spending an average of 5.4 hours per week on 
homework assignments.
The survey revealed that male teens are significantly more likely to have 
their own PC (29 per cent, compared with 20 per cent for girls). But despi=
te 
this inequality, teenage girls still spend more time on their homework and=
 
more hours using the computer for homework assignments than teenage 
boys, the study said.
Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves are teens' preferred search engines 
and portals, with Encarta, National Geographic, dictionary.com and NASA 
being other favourite homework-helping Web sites.
The study was conducted by Ipsos-NPD Canada Inc. from July 23 to Aug. 1, 
2002. On-line surveys were completed by 427 PC-owning households with 
home Internet access from across Canada, with the questions being 
answered by one parent and one teen (age 12-17) from each household. 


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