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technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school …. We investigate how 1:1 computer technology impacts student performance in primary school in Sweden, using data from an … implementing 1:1 technology. Nevertheless, all positive impacts in subgroups appear to be rather small, amounting to 0.01-0.03 SD …
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technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school …. We investigate how 1:1 computer technology impacts student performance in primary school in Sweden, using data from an … implementing 1:1 technology. Nevertheless, all positive impacts in subgroups appear to be rather small, amounting to 0.01-0.03 SD …
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implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … gathering and provision of information to parents at scale. In a field experiment across 22 middle and high schools, we used … this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child's missed assignments, grades and class …
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known about whether disparities in access to technology are partly responsible. Data from the first-ever field experiment … involving the random provision of free computers to low-income community college students for home use are used to explore … whether home computers are beneficial to minority students. I find that minority students receiving free computers achieved …
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themselves. The use of technologies in education is not a magic and rapid solution through which educational problems and …
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A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families, and policymakers with the hope of improving … educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational … outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary contexts in which technology may be used for educational purposes: (i …
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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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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 …
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