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TY - JOUR
TI - Computers and the academic performance of elementary school-aged girls in China's poor communities
AU - Yang, Yihua
AU - Zhang, Linxiu
AU - Zeng, Junxia
AU - Pang, Xiaopeng
AU - Lai, Fang
AU - Rozelle, Scott
T2 - Computers & Education
AB - Experts agree that computers and computing play an important role in education. Since the 1980s there has been a debate about gender as it relates to computers and education. However, results regarding gender differences concerning computer use in education are not consistent. In particular there is little work done in China on this issue. Therefore, the overall goal of this paper is to demonstrate whether girls and boys can gain equally from computer-based education in China's elementary schools. To do so we analyze results from three randomized field experiments of a Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) program and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program. The field experiments are carried out in three kinds of schools: Shannxi rural public schools; Qinghai minority public schools; and Beijing migrant schools. Although CAL and OLPC have been considered cost effective means to improve learning outcomes, it is not known whether the programs impact girls differently than boys. Our analysis shows that, in fact, there were no differences between female and male students in either the improvement in standardized math test scores or Chinese test scores with either the CAL or OLPC programs. Our study suggests that among disadvantaged students in China's rural areas and migrant communities, there is reason to believe that computer based learning can benefit both girls and boys equally. This finding has possible implications for China's ongoing efforts to integrate computers and computing technologies into the nation's underserved schools.
DA - 2013/01/01/
PY - 2013
DO - 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.08.011
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 60
IS - 1
SP - 335
EP - 346
J2 - Computers & Education
LA - en
SN - 0360-1315
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131512001972
Y2 - 2020/07/20/17:35:59
L2 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360131512001972
KW - Country-specific developments
KW - Elementary education
KW - Evaluation of CAL systems
KW - Gender studies
KW - Teaching/learning strategies
ER -

TY - JOUR
TI - Computers and the academic performance of elementary school-aged girls in China's poor communities
AU - Yang, Yihua
AU - Zhang, Linxiu
AU - Zeng, Junxia
AU - Pang, Xiaopeng
AU - Lai, Fang
AU - Rozelle, Scott
T2 - Computers & Education
AB - Experts agree that computers and computing play an important role in education. Since the 1980s there has been a debate about gender as it relates to computers and education. However, results regarding gender differences concerning computer use in education are not consistent. In particular there is little work done in China on this issue. Therefore, the overall goal of this paper is to demonstrate whether girls and boys can gain equally from computer-based education in China’s elementary schools. To do so we analyze results from three randomized ﬁeld experiments of a Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) program and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program. The ﬁeld experiments are carried out in three kinds of schools: Shannxi rural public schools; Qinghai minority public schools; and Beijing migrant schools. Although CAL and OLPC have been considered cost effective means to improve learning outcomes, it is not known whether the programs impact girls differently than boys. Our analysis shows that, in fact, there were no differences between female and male students in either the improvement in standardized math test scores or Chinese test scores with either the CAL or OLPC programs. Our study suggests that among disadvantaged students in China’s rural areas and migrant communities, there is reason to believe that computer based learning can beneﬁt both girls and boys equally. This ﬁnding has possible implications for China’s ongoing efforts to integrate computers and computing technologies into the nation’s underserved schools.
DA - 2013///
PY - 2013
DO - 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.08.011
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 60
IS - 1
SP - 335
EP - 346
J2 - Computers & Education
LA - en
SN - 03601315
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0360131512001972
Y2 - 2020/08/20/15:39:57
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