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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

Technology with elementary students

Overview

  • Influence: Technology with elementary students
  • Domain: Technology, School, and Out-of-School Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Technology
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
  • Influence Definition: The use of various computer technologies in the teaching of elementary or primary students.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 6
  • Number of studies: 264
  • Number of students: 0
  • Number of effects: 664
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.44
  • Robustness index: 3

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Conference paper Kulik, Kulik, & Bangert-Drowns USA Effects of computer-based education on elementary school pupils 1984 ICT with elementary students 25 0 25 0.48
Computers in Human Behavior Kulik, Kulik, & Bangert-Drowns USA Effectiveness of computer-based education in elementary schools 1985 ICT with elementary students 32 0 32 0.47
Journal of Research on Computing in Education Niemiec, Samson, Weinstein & Walberg USA The effects of computer based instruction in elementary schools: A quantitative synthesis 1987 ICT with elementary students 48 0 224 0.32
Journal of Educational Technology Systems Bishop-Clark & Grant USA Implementing computer technology in educational settings 1990 Computers in elementary schools 40 0 58 0.55
Dissertation Ouyang, Gerlach, Bieger, & Mikkelsen USA A Meta-Analysis: Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Instruction at the Level of Elementary Education (K-6) 1993 ICT in elementary schools 79 0 267 0.50
Dissertation Jones USA The effects of the Writing to Read computer program on reading achievement and attitudes of second-grade children 1991 ICT on elementary students 40 0 58 0.31
TOTAL/AVERAGE 264 0 664 0.44
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