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From SIGNALS to Success? The Effects of an Online Advising System on Course Grades
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Main, Joyce B.; Griffith, Amanda L. – Education Economics, 2019
Online advising tools have the potential to reach a large number of students with the goal of increasing course performance and learning with relatively modest time investment from the instructor. Course SIGNALS provides students with online, real-time feedback on course performance based on an algorithm using the student's effort, achievement,…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Feedback (Response), Academic Achievement, Computer Uses in Education
ICT Use at Home for School-Related Tasks: What Is the Effect on a Student's Achievement? Empirical Evidence from OECD PISA Data
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Agasisti, Tommaso; Gil-Izquierdo, María; Han, Seong Won – Education Economics, 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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Use, Homework, Family Environment