Summary:
ORCA II is the second in a series of large studies to evaluate a performance-based and a comparable task-based assessment of internet literacy. Over 1800 7th graders at 41 schools in two states participated; of these 1281 completed all background information, an offline reading measure and two assessments, one performance-based and the other task-based. An internet survey was also completed by 1223 students. The performance based assessment was developed as an interactive test with access restricted to an extensive synthetic internet (ORCA-Closed). The task-based assessment was a multiple choice (MC) test administered on a computer screen but following a traditional approach with items that mimicked the items in the performance-based assessment.
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