| 1-to-1 Laptop Initiatives Boost Student Scores, Study Finds |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Efforts by K-12 schools to give every student a laptop computer increased student achievement and gave a modest boost to their "21st-century skills," concludes a first-of-its-kind meta-analysis of 15 years' worth of research studies. "It's not like just providing a laptop to every student will automatically increase student achievement, but we find that it's the first step," said Binbin Zheng, an assistant professor of counseling, educational psychology, and special education at Michigan State University. Using statistical techniques to analyze already-completed studies, Zheng and her colleagues found that 1-to-1 laptop programs, on average, had a statistically significant positive impact on student test scores in English/language arts, writing, math, and science. The limited number of rigorous quantitative studies available to analyze means that further analysis is warranted, but the findings are clearly a good sign for 1-to-1 proponents, Zheng said. |
| Source: EdWeek (USA) | Published: June 3rd, 2016 |
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