Arbeitspapier

Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement

Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more effective teaching practices. Our correlated random effects models exploit within-student between-subject variation in different computer uses in the international TIMSS test. We find positive effects of using computers to look up information and negative effects of using computers to practice skills, resulting in overall null effects. Effects are larger for high-SES students and mostly confined to developed countries.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8939

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Education: Government Policy
Thema
computers
teaching methods
student achievement
TIMSS

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Falck, Oliver
Mang, Constantin
Woessmann, Ludger
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2015

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Falck, Oliver
  • Mang, Constantin
  • Woessmann, Ludger
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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