e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):75-89 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.018

Lower Secondary School Pupils' Perception of e-Textbooks

Josef Moravec, Karolína Pešková
Mgr. Josef Moravec, Department of Education, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Poříčí 31, Brno, 603 00, Czech Republic;, E-mail: pepamoravec@gmail.com
Mgr. Karolína Pešková, Ph.D., Institute for Research in School Education, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Poříčí 31, Brno, 603 00, Czech Republic;, E-mail: peskova@ped.muni.cz

The presented study aims to build on pupils' perception of textbooks in respect to the kind of textbook (printed or electronic) pupils prefer to use at school. The main research aim of the study was to investigate pupils' perception of the (future) use of e-textbooks as pupils are the population who are the textbooks primarily intended for. The partial aim was to find out advantages and disadvantages of printed textbooks and e-textbooks from the pupils' point of view. A questionnaire with demographic and context focused items, 5-point scale Likert type items and open-ended items was chosen as a research tool. The sample included 250 lower secondary school pupils from the Czech Republic. To analyse the data, methods of descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The results of the study showed that no matter if pupils use e-textbooks, the majority of respondents would like to use the e-textbooks in the future. In addition, according to the study pupils have more positive perception of the e-textbook than the printed textbook.

Keywords: E-textbook, lower secondary school pupils, perception, printed textbook

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