Survey: Tablet Ownership Up Among H.S., College Students

Education Week

March 19, 2012

Perhaps it should be no surprise, but tablet ownership among high school and college students is growing at an exponential rate, according to a second-annual survey by the Pearson Foundation, the nonprofit, philanthropic arm of educational content publisher Pearson.

Further, most of the roughly 1,200 college students and 200 college-bound high school seniors surveyed in January say they actually believe the prevalence of tablet technology will lead to a digital takeover of the textbook industry.

The results, released Wednesday, show that tablet owners more than quadrupled among college-bound high school seniors during the past year, with 17 percent surveyed this year claiming a tablet device as their own. It also more than tripled among college students, with a quarter of this year’s respondents owning a tablet. There was no information about the ownership likelihood for high school seniors who weren’t pursuing postsecondary education.

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