| 英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study was to examine gender invariance in online reading literacy and to describe the gender difference in online reading literacy performance. The construct of online reading literacy was operationalized as online reading comprehension involving metacognitive awareness of an online reading strategy, reading engagement, and print reading. A total of 601 second-graders from a junior high school in Tainan City, Taiwan, participated in this study. This study adopted the Rasch polytomous item response theory model to calibrate the scale scores. Structural equation modeling muti group analysis was also employed to examine the construct model fit and the gender construct-invariance. An independent-sample one-way multivariate analysis of variance was employed to examine the gender effects. The results indicated that the construct model fits the empirical data and supports the gender constructinvariance hypothesis. The gender effect also exists in the online reading environment. |