Does Daily Use of Digital Technologies Influence the Reading and Information Literacy of 15-year-old Students?

This paper focuses on the impact of out-of-school and in-school use of digital technologies on the reading and information literacy skills of 15-year-old Slovenian students who participated in the PISA 2018 study. For our study, we selected PISA 2018 variables related to the use of digital technologies in school or outside school. The sample (N=2612) consists of 50.8% girls and 49.2% boys. Part of the questionnaire refers to the use of digital technologies outside school: for entertainment and practical information purposes, for school purposes, and time spent with digital technologies. Part of the questionnaire refers to the use of digital technologies in school: for various purposes, for learning or teaching, and the time spent using digital technologies in class. The results show that the constructs of using digital technologies in school or out of school are strongly related but have a very low/insignificant impact on reading literacy and information literacy.