Abstract

FORMICHELLA, María Marta  and  ALDERETE, María Verónica. THE EFFECTS OF THE ICTS IN THE EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE: THE READING COMPREHENSION ANALYSIS. Semest. Econ. [online]. 2020, vol.23, n.54, pp.181-199.  Epub July 30, 2020. ISSN 0120-6346.  https://doi.org/10.22395/seec.v23n54a9.

The main objective of this work is studying the effect of the new information and communications technologies (ICTs) on educational results. For that, and econometric system of data panels with fixed effect adjusted by heteroscedasticity is estimated for a sample of 52 participant countries of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Here is stated the hypothesis that ICTs positively influenced the educational performance and the results found verified it. It is observed that the ICTs linked to the household, especially the access to broadband internet as well as those related to school have a significative and positive effect on the reading test results.

JEL CLASSIFICATION: I2, O3.

CONTENT: Introduction; 1. Background; 2. Methodology; 3. Results; 4. Final considerations; Bibliography

Keywords : Information and communications technologies; education economy; technology and education; models; quantitative method.

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