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Publication Date: 2020
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ICT Use at Home for School-Related Tasks: What Is the Effect on a Student's Achievement? Empirical Evidence from OECD PISA Data
Agasisti, Tommaso; Gil-Izquierdo, María; Han, Seong Won
Education Economics, v28 n6 p601-620 2020
In this paper, we have employed data from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA, 2012 edition) on the EU-15 countries in order to investigate the effect of using ICT at home on achievement. By employing Propensity Score Matching, we provide robust evidence that in most countries there is a negative association between using computers intensely for homework and achieving lower test scores across all subjects. Such negative effect affects the achievement of both low- and high-performing students and is robust to a specification that consider unobservable self-sorting of students across schools. Our findings suggest that a more cautious approach should be taken with regards to the wide-spread use of digital innovation as a means to support students' out-of-school work.
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Use, Homework, Family Environment, Correlation, Scores, Low Achievement, High Achievement, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Student Characteristics, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
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Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Austria; Belgium; Denmark; Finland; Germany; Greece; Ireland; Italy; Netherlands; Portugal; Spain; Sweden
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Program for International Student Assessment
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