The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia

This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a two-year randomized evaluation...

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Main Authors:	Barrera-Osorio, Felipe, Linden, Leigh L.
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	ACADEMIC OUTCOMES ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS ARITHMETIC AVERAGE SCORE AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECT BASIC EDUCATION CLASS ACTIVITIES CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT CLASSROOM TEACHER CLASSROOM TEACHING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES CLASSROOMS COGNITIVE SKILLS COLLABORATIVE LEARNING COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES COMPETENCIES COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING COMPUTER PROGRAMS COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS CURRICULUM DIGITAL DIVIDE EARLY GRADES ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATORS ELEMENTS EMPLOYMENT ETS EXAM EXAMS FEMALE STUDENTS FIELD TEST GIRLS GRADE LEVELS HIGHER GRADES HOMEWORK HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HYPERMEDIA INSTRUCTION INSTRUCTION METHODS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY INTERVENTIONS LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LANGUAGE EDUCATION LANGUAGE TEACHERS LEARNING LEARNING PROCESS LEARNING PROCESSES LECTURES LITERATURE LOWER SECONDARY MATH SCORES MATH TEACHERS MATHEMATICS NATURAL SCIENCES NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMBER OF STUDENTS PAPERS PEDAGOGY PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS PRINCIPALS PUBLIC SCHOOLS QUALITY OF EDUCATION READING READING SKILLS REASONING REGULAR CLASSROOM REPETITION RESEARCH LITERATURE RESEARCHERS RURAL AREAS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCES STANDARDIZED TESTS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT ASSESSMENT STUDENT BEHAVIOR STUDENT OUTCOMES SUBJECTS TEACHER TEACHER BEHAVIOR TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING METHODOLOGIES TEACHING METHODS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TEST SCORES TEXTBOOKS TRAINING OF TEACHERS TUTORIALS TYPES OF STUDENTS WRITING SKILLS
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spelling	okr-10986-40322021-04-23T14:02:14Z The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Linden, Leigh L. ACADEMIC OUTCOMES ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS ARITHMETIC AVERAGE SCORE AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECT BASIC EDUCATION CLASS ACTIVITIES CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT CLASSROOM TEACHER CLASSROOM TEACHING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES CLASSROOMS COGNITIVE SKILLS COLLABORATIVE LEARNING COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES COMPETENCIES COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING COMPUTER PROGRAMS COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS CURRICULUM DIGITAL DIVIDE EARLY GRADES ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATORS ELEMENTS EMPLOYMENT ETS EXAM EXAMS FEMALE STUDENTS FIELD TEST GIRLS GRADE LEVELS HIGHER GRADES HOMEWORK HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HYPERMEDIA INSTRUCTION INSTRUCTION METHODS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY INTERVENTIONS LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LANGUAGE EDUCATION LANGUAGE TEACHERS LEARNING LEARNING PROCESS LEARNING PROCESSES LECTURES LITERATURE LOWER SECONDARY MATH SCORES MATH TEACHERS MATHEMATICS NATURAL SCIENCES NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMBER OF STUDENTS PAPERS PEDAGOGY PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS PRINCIPALS PUBLIC SCHOOLS QUALITY OF EDUCATION READING READING SKILLS REASONING REGULAR CLASSROOM REPETITION RESEARCH LITERATURE RESEARCHERS RURAL AREAS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCES STANDARDIZED TESTS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT ASSESSMENT STUDENT BEHAVIOR STUDENT OUTCOMES SUBJECTS TEACHER TEACHER BEHAVIOR TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING METHODOLOGIES TEACHING METHODS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TEST SCORES TEXTBOOKS TRAINING OF TEACHERS TUTORIALS TYPES OF STUDENTS WRITING SKILLS This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a two-year randomized evaluation of the program using a sample of 97 schools and 5,201 children. Overall, the program seems to have had little effect on students' test scores and other outcomes. These results are consistent across grade levels, subjects, and gender. The main reason for these results seems to be the failure to incorporate the computers into the educational process. Although the program increased the number of computers in the treatment schools and provided training to the teachers on how to use the computers in their classrooms, surveys of both teachers and students suggest that teachers did not incorporate the computers into their curriculum. 2012-03-19T19:08:43Z 2012-03-19T19:08:43Z 2009-02-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090211111507 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4032 English Impact Evaluation series ; no. IE 29 Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4836 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Latin America & Caribbean South America America Colombia
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topic	ACADEMIC OUTCOMES ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS ARITHMETIC AVERAGE SCORE AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECT BASIC EDUCATION CLASS ACTIVITIES CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT CLASSROOM TEACHER CLASSROOM TEACHING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES CLASSROOMS COGNITIVE SKILLS COLLABORATIVE LEARNING COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES COMPETENCIES COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING COMPUTER PROGRAMS COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS CURRICULUM DIGITAL DIVIDE EARLY GRADES ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATORS ELEMENTS EMPLOYMENT ETS EXAM EXAMS FEMALE STUDENTS FIELD TEST GIRLS GRADE LEVELS HIGHER GRADES HOMEWORK HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HYPERMEDIA INSTRUCTION INSTRUCTION METHODS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY INTERVENTIONS LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LANGUAGE EDUCATION LANGUAGE TEACHERS LEARNING LEARNING PROCESS LEARNING PROCESSES LECTURES LITERATURE LOWER SECONDARY MATH SCORES MATH TEACHERS MATHEMATICS NATURAL SCIENCES NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMBER OF STUDENTS PAPERS PEDAGOGY PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS PRINCIPALS PUBLIC SCHOOLS QUALITY OF EDUCATION READING READING SKILLS REASONING REGULAR CLASSROOM REPETITION RESEARCH LITERATURE RESEARCHERS RURAL AREAS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCES STANDARDIZED TESTS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT ASSESSMENT STUDENT BEHAVIOR STUDENT OUTCOMES SUBJECTS TEACHER TEACHER BEHAVIOR TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING METHODOLOGIES TEACHING METHODS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TEST SCORES TEXTBOOKS TRAINING OF TEACHERS TUTORIALS TYPES OF STUDENTS WRITING SKILLS
spellingShingle	ACADEMIC OUTCOMES ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS ARITHMETIC AVERAGE SCORE AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECT BASIC EDUCATION CLASS ACTIVITIES CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT CLASSROOM TEACHER CLASSROOM TEACHING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES CLASSROOMS COGNITIVE SKILLS COLLABORATIVE LEARNING COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES COMPETENCIES COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING COMPUTER PROGRAMS COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS CURRICULUM DIGITAL DIVIDE EARLY GRADES ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATORS ELEMENTS EMPLOYMENT ETS EXAM EXAMS FEMALE STUDENTS FIELD TEST GIRLS GRADE LEVELS HIGHER GRADES HOMEWORK HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HYPERMEDIA INSTRUCTION INSTRUCTION METHODS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY INTERVENTIONS LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LANGUAGE EDUCATION LANGUAGE TEACHERS LEARNING LEARNING PROCESS LEARNING PROCESSES LECTURES LITERATURE LOWER SECONDARY MATH SCORES MATH TEACHERS MATHEMATICS NATURAL SCIENCES NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NUMBER OF STUDENTS PAPERS PEDAGOGY PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS PRINCIPALS PUBLIC SCHOOLS QUALITY OF EDUCATION READING READING SKILLS REASONING REGULAR CLASSROOM REPETITION RESEARCH LITERATURE RESEARCHERS RURAL AREAS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCES STANDARDIZED TESTS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT ASSESSMENT STUDENT BEHAVIOR STUDENT OUTCOMES SUBJECTS TEACHER TEACHER BEHAVIOR TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING METHODOLOGIES TEACHING METHODS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TEST SCORES TEXTBOOKS TRAINING OF TEACHERS TUTORIALS TYPES OF STUDENTS WRITING SKILLS Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Linden, Leigh L. The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
geographic_facet	Latin America & Caribbean Latin America & Caribbean South America America Colombia
relation	Impact Evaluation series ; no. IE 29 Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4836
description	This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a two-year randomized evaluation of the program using a sample of 97 schools and 5,201 children. Overall, the program seems to have had little effect on students' test scores and other outcomes. These results are consistent across grade levels, subjects, and gender. The main reason for these results seems to be the failure to incorporate the computers into the educational process. Although the program increased the number of computers in the treatment schools and provided training to the teachers on how to use the computers in their classrooms, surveys of both teachers and students suggest that teachers did not incorporate the computers into their curriculum.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Linden, Leigh L.
author_facet	Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Linden, Leigh L.
author_sort	Barrera-Osorio, Felipe
title	The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
title_short	The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
title_full	The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
title_fullStr	The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
title_full_unstemmed	The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
title_sort	use and misuse of computers in education : evidence from a randomized experiment in colombia
publishDate	2012
url	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090211111507 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4032
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The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia

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