Abstract

The aim of this paper is to determine relation between PISA Reading Skills and ICT use skills of Turkish students. In this study are four variables such as joy/like Reading, use of Libraries, Online Reading and Plausible value in reading which are dealt with as indications of reading skills. It constitutes six variables such as attitude towards computers, ICT internet/entertainment use, ICT for school related tasks, ICT availability at home, ICT availability at school, use of ICT at school. They are dealt with as indications of ICT use.  Canonical correlation analysis is used to determine the relation between reading skills and ICT use skills. A high level significant relationship is found between 2009 PISA Reading skills and ICT use skills of Turkish students.

Key words: PISA 2009 reading skills, communication technology use skills, canonical correlation.