All three PRIMR ICT interventions (TAC tutor tablets, teacher tablets, and pupil e-readers) produced statistically significant literacy gains over the control group in grade 2¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? In a cluster-randomized trial in Kisumu County, each of the three ICT treatment groups outperformed the control group on key literacy measures, with statistically significant differences. → Piper 2015

Evidence¶

Piper 2015¶

Piper, B., Jepkemei, E., Kwayumba, D., & Kibukho, K. (2015). Kenya's ICT Policy in Practice: The Effectiveness of Tablets and E-readers in Improving Student Outcomes. FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2(1). http://preserve.lehigh.edu/fire/vol2/iss1/2

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Randomized controlled trial of three ICT interventions in Kisumu County, Kenya, with eight zones randomly assigned to three treatment groups and control, 20 schools per group, and 1,580 pupils assessed at baseline and 1,560 at endline using the Early Grade Reading Assessment in English and Kiswahili. The article reports "the differences were statistically significant" for all three treatment groups versus control; no effect size is printed.

"The difference-in-difference models revealed that all three treatment groups had better performance on the key variables than did the control group, and that the differences were statistically significant"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Statistical Reasoning — outcome: instruction changes it

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