Mere deployment of OLPC laptops has limited relevance to children in use and outcome¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Giving primacy to mere deployment of OLPC laptops has limited relevance to children, both in use and outcome. → Ale 2017

Evidence¶

Ale 2017¶

Ale, K., Loh, Y. A.-C., & Chib, A. (2017). Contextualized-OLPC education project in rural India: measuring learning impact and mediation of computer self-efficacy. Education Tech Research Dev, 65, 769–794. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-017-9517-2

q2 · i? · causal · r?

Authors' overall interpretation from the quasi-experimental study: "giving primacy to mere deployment of OLPC laptops has limited relevance to children, both in use and outcome."

"Overall, the research illustrated that giving primacy to mere deployment of OLPC laptops has limited relevance to children, both in use and outcome."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Distributing hardware without capable software produced no measurable effect on mathematics or language scores in a large randomized evaluation, as the article reports citing Cristia et al. — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Computer self-efficacy mediates the relationship between technological literacy attained through the Contextualized-OLPC project and functional literacy — related
• Merely modifying teaching methods in medical and dental schools has limited merit for steering students' learning approaches; no one-size-fits-all teaching method exists — a broader claim this one bears on