RT Journal Article
T1 The impact of different uses of the Internet on students’ performance progression throughout primary education.
A1 Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, Maria
A1 López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
K1 Rendimiento académico
K1 Internet en la enseñanza
K1 Enseñanza primaria
K1 Educación - Modelos matemáticos
AB The present research analyses the impact that the time spent on the Internet by primary school (3rd and 6th grade) students may have on their academic progression in terms of test scores. In order to go beyond a correlational analysis, we have applied a time fixed-effects estimation using a recent longitudinal database of 15,974 students from the Spanish region of the Canary Islands. Our results show that, in general, an increasingly frequent use of the Internet has a negative influence on students’ academic achievement progression, with higher use of instant messaging applications being particularly linked to girls’ poorer mathematics academic performance progression. This negative influence may be a consequence of replacing time to academic activities (e.g., reading books or homework) with time using the Internet, which can also ultimately lead students to adopt unhealthy study habits that can affect their future academic success. Furthermore, we find that there is not a negative impact of playing videogames on the mathematics competence, as the development of spatial-visual (digital) skills possibly counterbalances the negative influence of time substitution between academically oriented tasks and the Internet.
PB Springer
YR 2023
FD 2023-12-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39357
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39357
LA eng
NO Ladrón de Guevara, M., López-Agudo, L. A., Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, O. D. (2024). “The impact of different uses of the Internet on students’ performance progression throughout primary education”. Education and Information Technologies, 27, 12457-12525.
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/16998
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 23 ene 2026