| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22928 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22928 |
| Books or Laptops? The Cost-Effectiveness of Shifting from Printed to Digital Delivery of Educational Content | |
| Rosangela Bando; Francisco Gallego; Paul Gertler; Dario Romero | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-12-12 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Information and communication technologies, such as laptops, can be used for educational purposes as they provide users with computational tools, information storage and communication opportunities, but these devices may also pose as distractors that may tamper with the learning process. This paper presents results from a randomized controlled trial in which laptops replaced traditional textbook provision in elementary schools in high poverty communities in Honduras in 2013 through the program Educatracho. We show that at the end of one school year, the substitution of laptops for textbooks did not make a significant difference in student learning. We additionally conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis, which demonstrated that given the low marginal costs of digital textbook provision, the substitution of three additional textbooks in the program (for a total of five) would guarantee computers to be more cost-effective than textbooks. Therefore, textbook substitution by laptops may be a cost-effective manner to provide classroom learning content. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22928 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580601 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rosangela Bando,Francisco Gallego,Paul Gertler,et al. Books or Laptops? The Cost-Effectiveness of Shifting from Printed to Digital Delivery of Educational Content. 2016. |
| 条目包含的文件 | ||||||
| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w22928.pdf（564KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
