Information Technology and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ecuador

Paul Carrillo, Mercedes Onofa and Juan Ponce

No 3094, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper studies the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the school environment on educational achievement. To quantify these effects, the impact is evaluated of a project run by the municipality of Guayaquil, Ecuador, which provides computer-aided instruction in mathematics and language to students in primary schools. Using an experimental design, it is found that the program had a positive impact on mathematics test scores (about 0. 30 of a standard deviation) and a negative but statistically insignificant effect on language test scores. The impact is heterogeneous and is much larger for those students at the top of the achievement distribution.

Keywords: IDB-WP-223; Information and communications technology; Education; Experimental design; Ecuador; ICT; primary education; experimental design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12
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