TY  - GEN
AU  - Carrillo, Paul E.
AU  - Onofa, Mercedes
AU  - Ponce, Juan
TI  - Information Technology and Student  Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ecuador
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/08/23
DO  - 10.18235/0011199
AB  - 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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0011199
ER  -