TY - JOUR

T1 - IC technology and learning

T2 - an impact evaluation of Cl@ssi 2.0

AU - Checchi, Daniele

AU - Rettore, Enrico

AU - Girardi, Silvia

N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli. Funding Information: This work was supported by Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli. Paper presented at SREE 2013 Spring conference (Washington). We thank two anonymous referees for helping us to make our contribution clearer and sharper. All remaining errors are ours. Fondazione Agnelli and Fondazione per la Scuola have generously funded the evaluation presented in this paper; Invalsi, the national agency for school assessment made the data on students? tests available to us. The interpretation of the results is entirely attributable to the authors and not to the sponsoring institutions nor to the Ministry of Education. Many people have made this evaluation possible, and we would like to thank them all, in particular Andrea Gavosto, Stefano Molina, Marco Giovannini and Gianfranco De Simone (Fondazione Agnelli); Annamaria Poggi and Claudia Mandrile (Fondazione per la Scuola); Piero Cipollone, Paolo Sestito, Roberto Ricci and Patrizia Falzetti (Invalsi); Gianna Barbieri and Antonio Martino (Ufficio Statistico del MIUR); Vittorio Campione and Filomena Morgia (Ufficio del Consigliere per le Tecnologie), Antonio Ronca, Giusy Cannella and Samuele Borri (Ansas). Eventually, also Franco DeAnna, Valeria Pandolfini and Valentina Rastelli have provided valuable support at some stage of the research. Publisher Copyright: © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - In this paper We present a pilot study providing ICT resources at some Italian junior high schools. In 2009, 156 classes at 6 th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipment. By selecting an equivalent number of classes in the same schools, we are able to conduct an evaluation of the causal effect of ICT on student achievements, controlling for their initial level. Despite a significant investment, the impact on literacy and numeracy achievement is negligible: if we take the most encouraging results, the average improvement would be 3 test points, corresponding to 17% of a standard deviation.

AB - In this paper We present a pilot study providing ICT resources at some Italian junior high schools. In 2009, 156 classes at 6 th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipment. By selecting an equivalent number of classes in the same schools, we are able to conduct an evaluation of the causal effect of ICT on student achievements, controlling for their initial level. Despite a significant investment, the impact on literacy and numeracy achievement is negligible: if we take the most encouraging results, the average improvement would be 3 test points, corresponding to 17% of a standard deviation.

KW - Human capital

KW - ICT educational support; quasi-experimental design

U2 - 10.1080/09645292.2018.1549654

DO - 10.1080/09645292.2018.1549654

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85057597412

VL - 27

SP - 241

EP - 264

JO - Education Economics

JF - Education Economics

SN - 0964-5292

IS - 3

ER -