Computers and Student Learning: Bivariate and Multivariate Evidence on the Availability and Use of Computers at Home and at School

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Computers and Student Learning: Bivariate and Multivariate Evidence on the Availability and Use of Computers at Home and at School

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Thomas Fuchs () (Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich)
Ludger Wößmann () (Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich and CESifo)

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Abstract

We estimate the relationship between computers and students’ educational achievement in the international student-level PISA database. Bivariate analyses show a positive correlation between achievement and computer availability both at home and at school. However, once we control extensively for family background and school characteristics, the relationship gets negative for home computers and insignificant for school computers. Thus, mere availability of computers at home seems to distract students from effective learning. But achievement shows a positive conditional relationship with computer use for education and communication at home and an inverted U-shaped relationship with computer and internet use at school.

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Article provided by Editions du DULBEA, Université libre de Bruxelles, Department of Applied Economics (DULBEA) in its journal Brussels Economic Journal/Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles.

Volume (Year): 47 (2004)
Issue (Month): 3-4 ()
Pages: 359-385
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- Thomas Fuchs & Ludger Wößmann, 2005. "Computers and Student Learning: Bivariate and Multivariate Evidence on the Availability and Use of Computers at Home and at School," Ifo Working Paper Series Ifo Working Paper No. 8, Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich. [Downloadable!]
- Thomas Fuchs & Ludger Woessmann, 2004. "Computers and Student Learning: Bivariate and Multivariate Evidence on the Availability and Use of Computers at Home and at School," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo GmbH. [Downloadable!]

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