Can technology improve the classroom experience in primary education? An African experiment on a worldwide program
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Título: | Can technology improve the classroom experience in primary education? An African experiment on a worldwide program |
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Autor/es: | Cardim, Joana | Molina-Millán, Teresa | Vicente, Pedro C. |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Economía Laboral y Econometría (ELYE) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico |
Palabras clave: | Primary education | Computer-assisted learning | CAL | Field experiment, RCT | Africa | Angola |
Fecha de publicación: | 8-jul-2023 |
Editor: | Elsevier |
Cita bibliográfica: | Journal of Development Economics. 2023, 164: 103145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103145 |
Resumen: | Primary school coverage has been increasing in most developing countries. Yet, it has not been accompanied by significant improvements in learning indicators. We implemented a randomized experiment in Angola around the introduction of ProFuturo, a worldwide educational program. The program includes a Computer-assisted Learning (CAL) software directed at improving the regular classroom experience. One year after the program started, we find higher familiarity with technology. Teachers miss fewer days of classes and implement better teaching practices. Students become more interested in learning and pro-social. Finally, the program improves students’ test scores but only in the most popular subject in the CAL platform. |
Patrocinador/es: | We acknowledge funding from la Caixa Foundation, Spain. This work was also funded by Fundac̨ão para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (SFRH/BD/131707/2017, UID/ECO/00124/2013, UID/ECO/00124/2019), POR Lisboa, Portugal (LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-007722, LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-022209) and POR Norte, Portugal (LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-022209). Teresa Molina-Millán acknowledges financial support from Generalitat Valenciana, Spain CDEIGENT/2020/016 and from the Spanish Ministry of the Economy and Competitiveness, Grant ECO2017-87069-P. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/136486 |
ISSN: | 0304-3878 (Print) | 1872-6089 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103145 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103145 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - ELYE - Artículos de Revistas |
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