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experimentally evaluate an innovative technology program that uses gamification to increase math learning in low-performing primary …Gamification, or the introduction of game elements to non-game contexts, has the potential to improve learning by …' 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
experimentally evaluate an innovative technology program that uses gamification to increase math learning in low-performing primary …Gamification, or the introduction of game elements to non-game contexts, has the potential to improve learning by …' 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
experimentally evaluate an innovative technology program that uses gamification to increase math learning in low-performing primary …Gamification, or the introduction of game elements to non-game contexts, has the potential to improve learning by …’ 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/10012028146
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658035
Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
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Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884274
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698660
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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This document investigates the effect that the delivery of XO laptops in Peru has had on teachers' pedagogical practices and students' use of time in the home based on information from a randomized control trial. The results show that the delivery of XO laptops reduces the probability that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653160
We present evidence on the impact on students' math and reading scores of one of the largest deployments of an OLPC program and the only one implemented at a national scale: Plan Ceibal in Uruguay. We have unique data that allow us to know the exact date of laptop delivery for every student in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445092