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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017
implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child's missed assignments, grades and class … increases parent monitoring. Our results show that this type of automated technology can improve student effort relatively …
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The Context of IST for Solid Information Retrieval and Infrastructure Building: Study of Developing Country
Paul, Prantosh Kumar - In: International Journal of Information Retrieval Research … 8 (2018) 1, pp. 86-100
Sciences and Technology are rapidly emerging worldwide. Among the emerging and popular areas, a few include Cloud Computing … these programs have been proposed here. Information Science and Technology (IST) with programs such as Bachelors, Masters …
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Student Learning and Information Technology Nexus
Baporikar, Neeta - In: International Journal of Service Science, Management, … 7 (2016) 2, pp. 34-45
The evidence illustrating enhancement in student learning through information technology (IT) is still questioned in …
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A comparative survey of structural characteristics of Finnish university departments
Deschryvere, Matthias - 2009
This descriptive paper analyses structural characteristics of Finnish university departments (FIDs) and benchmarks them against foreign university departments from Scandinavia, the UK and the US (FODs). In the first place the study aims to reveal information on differences in department size. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273064
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Technology, education, life and non-life insurance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
This article examines the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in modulating the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112216
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Technology, education, life and non-life insurance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
This article examines the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in modulating the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058449
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Do children benefit from internet access? Experimental evidence from a developing country
Malamud, Ofer; Cueto, Santiago; Cristia, Julian; … - 2018
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. Children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access are compared with i) those who did not receive laptops and ii) those who only received...
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Does gamification in education work? Experimental evidence from Chile
Araya, Roberto; Arias Ortiz, Elena; Bottan, Nicolas L.; … - 2019
experimentally evaluate an innovative technology program that uses gamification to increase math learning in low-performing primary …' preference to use technology for math learning and promoted the idea among students that study effort can raise intelligence. On …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141975
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¿Funciona la gamificación en la educación? Evidencia experimental de Chile
Araya, Roberto; Arias Ortiz, Elena; Bottan, Nicolas L.; … - 2019
experimentally evaluate an innovative technology program that uses gamification to increase math learning in low-performing primary …' preference to use technology for math learning and promoted the idea among students that study effort can raise intelligence. On …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141976
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The effects of shared school technology access on students digital skills in Peru
Bet, Germán; Cristia, Julian; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
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