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Computers and students' achievement: an analysis of the one laptop per child program in Catalonia
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Author:
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Mora Corral, Antoni J.; Escardíbul Ferrà, Josep Oriol; Di Pietro, Giorgio
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We analyse the impact of a One Laptop per Child program introduced by the Catalan government on student achievement. Using longitudinal population data for students in secondary education during the period 2009-2016, our identification strategy exploits variations across cohorts within schools. Although participation into the program was not random, we control for a number of school characteristics that influenced school participation. The empirical results consistently indicate that this program had a negative impact on student performance in Catalan, Spanish, English and mathematics. Test scores fell by 0.20-0.22 standardised points, which represent 3.8-6.2% of the average test score. This negative effect was stronger among boys than it was among girls (differences ranging from 10% to 42%). |
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-Rendiment de l'alumnat
-Política educativa
-OLPC
-Educació secundària
-Desempeño del estudiante
-Política educativa
-OLPC
-Educación secundaria
-Student performance
-Education policy
-OLPC
-Secondary education
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© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/).
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Article
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Elsevier
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