An Evaluation of the Impact of 1:1 Laptops on Student Attainment in Senior High School Sciences
| Autor: | Rachel Wilson, Simon Crook, Manjula D. Sharma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Science Education. 37:272-293 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5289 0950-0693 |
| Popis: | Our study capitalized on a unique natural experiment rather than a researcher-designed, randomized experiment whereby, thanks to the Australian Government's Digital Education Revolution, half of grade 9 students in 2008 received laptops and half did not. Consequently in late 2011, when these students sat for their grade 12 external examinations based on the same curriculum implemented across the state of New South Wales, half of them had been schooled with 1:1 laptops for over three years, and half without. With school principals and district administrators asking the question ‘what will these laptops do to our examination results?' this dichotomous scenario presented us with a unique opportunity to find out. The aim of this study was to evaluate if having 1:1 laptops was a predictor of success in the sciences in the external examinations. The science students (N = 967) from 12 high schools in Sydney, Australia were studied. Using socio-demographic, school and examination data, multiple regression analyse... |
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