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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Technology with college students

Overview

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

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 18
  • Number of studies: 2,042
  • Number of students: 77,148
  • Number of effects: 2,078
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.35
  • Robustness index: 5

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
Review of Educational Research Kulik, Kulik & Cohen USA Effectiveness of Computer-Based College Teaching: A Meta-Analysis of Findings 1980 ICT on college 312 0 278 0.48
AEDS Journal Kulik & Kulik USA Effectiveness of computer-based education in colleges 1986 ICT on college 48 0 48 0.32
Journal of Educational Computing Research Kulik, Kulik, & Schwalb USA The Effectiveness of Computer-Based Adult Education: A Meta-Analysis 1986 ICT with adults 23 0 23 0.42
Report Kulik USA Effects of Using Instructional Technology in Colleges and Universities: What Controlled Evaluation Studies Say 2003 ICT on college 12 0 12 0.88
Communication Education Timmerman & Kruepke USA Computer-Assisted Instruction, Media Richness, and College Student Performance 2006 ICT with college students 118 12,398 118 0.24
Dissertation Hamilton USA A Meta-Analysis of the Comparative Research on Computer-Assisted Instruction and its Effects on Elementary and Secondary Mathematics Achievement 1995 ICT in higher education 41 0 253 0.66
Journal of Research on Technology in Education Larwin & Larwin USA A Meta-Analysis Examining the Impact of Computer-Assisted Instruction on Postsecondary Statistics Education: 40 Years of Research 2011 ICT in postsecondary stats courses 70 40,125 70 0.57
Dissertation Michko USA A meta-analysis of the effects of teaching and learning with technology on student outcomes in undergraduate engineering education 2007 Teaching engineering UGs with technology 45 11,700 123 0.43
Dissertation Steenbergen-Hu & Cooper USA The effects of public high school size on student achievement: a meta-analysis. 1991 Computer assisted learning environments 26 0 26 0.37
Computers and Education Schmid, Bernard, Borokhovski, Tamim, Abrami, Surkes, Wade & Woods USA The Effects of Technology Use in Postsecondary Education: A Meta-Analysis of Classroom Applications 2014 ICT in postsecondary courses 1,105 0 879 0.27
Language Learning and Technology Lin, Huang, & Liou China The effects of text-based SCMC on SLA: A meta analysis 2013 Text based computer mediated communication 10 0 10 0.33
Language Learning and Technology Lin China Establishing an empirical link between computer-mediated communication (CMC) and SLA: A meta-analysis of the research. 2014 Text based computer mediated communication 59 0 59 0.46
System Perez, Noortgate, & Desmet Belgium Captioned video for L2 listening and vocabulary learning: A meta-analysis 2013 Captioned video 15 0 15 0.99
Studies in Educational Evaluation Vo, Zhu, & Diep Belgium The effect of blended learning on student performance at course-level in higher education: A meta-analysis 2017 Blended learning in higher education 51 7,033 51 0.39
Dissertation Wandera USA Continuing the Conversation About Face-to-Face, Online, and Blended Learning a Meta-Analysis of Empirical Literature 2006-2017 2017 Blended, online learning 30 3,687 36 0.40
Computers and Education Archer, Savage, Sanghera-Sidhu, Wood, Gottardo, & Chen Canada Examining the effectiveness of technology use in classrooms: A tertiary meta-analysis 2014 ICT on higher education 38 0 38 0.30
Journal of the Japan Society for Educational Technology Saito & Kinji Japan Meta-analysis of the effects of e-Learning on higher education. 2009 e-learning in higher ed 24 2,205 24 0.42
Journal of Education and Practice Mothibi South Africa A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between E-Learning and Students' Academic Achievement in Higher Education 2015 Internet in higher ed 15 0 15 0.71
TOTAL/AVERAGE 2,042 77,148 2,078 0.48
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