I. Introduction
Numerous measures have been introduced by the Government of Sri Lanka to enhance ICT skills of school children over the years. There are state schools that provide free education to all and fee levying schools in the country. Among the fee levying schools what is commonly known as private schools prepare students for national examinations and international schools focus on foreign examinations i.e. Edexcel and Cambridge International Examinations. Thus, the public schools and private schools share a common curriculum and examination system whereas the international schools follow the stipulated curricula by the international examinations. For the present study only the schools that follow the national curriculum were taken into consideration. At present there are over 9600 public schools in the country catering to around 4.3 million children. Whereas English is taught in schools as a second language from Year 1 to Year 13, many modern and classical languages i.e. Japanese, French, German, Hindi, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Malay, Sanskrit and Pali, are offered at the two national examinations at the completion of Year 11 and Year 13 of formal education. The examinations are General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level and Advanced Level. ICT is offered as an optional subject for the Ordinary Level Examination at Year 11 and plans are underway to introduce the subject to the Advanced Level stream shortly.