Irûmi increased teachers' probability of using robots in class by 82 percentage points and notebooks by 18 percentage points¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Treatment teachers were 82 pp more likely to use robots and 18 pp more likely to use notebooks, a device not part of the program; no standardized effect size is printed for these dichotomous outcomes. → Emma Näslund-Hadley 2026

Evidence¶

Emma Näslund-Hadley 2026¶

Emma Näslund-Hadley, Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte, Humberto Santos, Pablo Zoido. (2026). Impact of an educational robot-based intervention on second-graders computational thinking skills: experimental evaluation of the Irûmi program in Paraguay. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-026-10675-2

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Teacher ITT estimates (Table 8, Eq. 1) expressed in percentage points from the cluster RCT (N = 160 teachers). The article reports the 82 pp robot effect and an 18 pp notebook increase "despite notebooks not being part of the program's strategy"; effects are in percentage points, so no standardized effect size is printed.

"Teachers in the treatment group were 82 percent- age points (pp) more likely to use robots compared to teachers in the control group."

Discussion¶

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