New evidence on classroom computers and pupil learning

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Angrist, J; Lavy, V
• 署名单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00068
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 735-765
• 关键词: regression

摘要

How technology affects learning has been at the centre of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This programme provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of computerisation on both the instructional rise of computers and pupil achievement. Results from a Survey of Israeli school-teachers show that the influx of new computers increased teachers' use of computer-aided instruction (CAI). Although many of the estimates are imprecise, CAI does not appear to have had educational benefits that translated into higher test scores.