One-To-One Technology and Student Outcomes

Marie Hull and Katherine Duch
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No 10886, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: New technologies offer many promises to improve student learning, but efforts to bring them to the classroom often fail to produce improvements to student outcomes. A notable exception to this pattern is one-to-one laptop programs. While early evaluations of these programs have been encouraging, they are costly to implement, and no study has investigated the impact of a one-to-one technology program implemented on a large scale over a multiyear period. With administrative school data, this paper uses a differences-in-differences strategy to evaluate the impact of a one-to-one laptop program implemented in a midsize school district. We find that while short-term impacts of the program were modest, math scores improved by 0.15–0.17 standard deviations in the medium term (4–5 years post-implementation). We also investigate heterogeneity in impacts on test scores and the impact of the program on several measures of student behavior.

Keywords: technology; computers; education; achievement; test score; time use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J24 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2017-07
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Published - published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019, 41 (1), 79-97

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