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Impacto del Plan Ceibal en el aprendizaje. Evidencia de la mayor experiencia OLPC

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  • Gioia de Melo

    (Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración. Instituto de Economí­a)

  • Alina Machado

    (Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración. Instituto de Economí­a)

  • Alfonso Miranda

    (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (México))

  • Magdalena Viera

    (Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración. Instituto de Economí­a)

Abstract

This paper presents evidence on the impact of the largest deployment of an OLPC program: Plan Ceibal in Uruguay. Unlike previous work in the field, we have unique data that allow us to know the exact date of laptop delivery for every student in the sample. This gives us the ability to use a continuous rather than a discrete treatment, where days of exposure are used as a treatment intensity measure. The treatment intensity varies in many cases across individuals within the same school. Such detail gives us the opportunity to identify the effect of the program net of potential diverging trends among schools. To our knowledge, this has not been done before. Our results suggest that the program had no effects on reading and math scores. This could be explained by the fact that laptops in class are mainly used to search for information on the internet. Our findings confirm that technology per se cannot impact on learning unless teaching is radically transformed.

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  • Gioia de Melo & Alina Machado & Alfonso Miranda & Magdalena Viera, 2013. "Impacto del Plan Ceibal en el aprendizaje. Evidencia de la mayor experiencia OLPC," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 13-13, Instituto de Economía - IECON.
    • Handle: RePEc:ulr:wpaper:dt-13-13
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    1. Nerea Gómez-Fernández & Mauro Mediavilla, 2018. "Do information and communication technologies (ICT) improve educational outcomes? Evidence for Spain in PISA 2015," Working Papers 2018/20, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB).
    2. Díaz, Carlos & Dodel, Matías & Menese, Pablo, 2022. "Can one laptop per child reduce digital inequalities? ICT household access patterns under Plan Ceibal," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(9).
    3. Gómez-Fernández, Nerea & Mediavilla, Mauro, 2021. "Exploring the relationship between Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and academic performance: A multilevel analysis for Spain," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).

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    Keywords

    technology; education; impact evaluation;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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