{"id":626,"date":"2006-05-04T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2006-05-04T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T16:01:00","slug":"does-home-internet-access-improve-academic-achievement-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/04\/does-home-internet-access-improve-academic-achievement-pbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Home Internet Access Improve Academic Achievement? | PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/teachersource\/learning.now\/2006\/05\/does_home_internet_access_impr_1.html\">TeacherSource | learning.now . Does Home Internet Access Improve Academic Achievement? | PBS<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Researchers noted that for the first six months of the study, Internet access appeared to have no effect on GPA. However, \u201cInternet usage did predict GPA obtained after one year of home access.\u201d This pattern continued through the end of the study, the researchers observing a correlation between home Internet access and higher grade points. They also correlated home access with higher standardized test scores in reading: \u201cMore time online was associated with higher reading comprehension and total reading scores.\u201d They attributed these results to the text-heavy nature of Internet&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TeacherSource | learning.now . Does Home Internet Access Improve Academic Achievement? | PBS: &#8220;Researchers noted that for the first six months of the study, Internet access appeared to have no effect on GPA. However, \u201cInternet usage did predict GPA obtained after one year of home access.\u201d This pattern continued through the end of the study, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-a6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}