Two new rigorous evaluations of technology use in education

(...) Despite such efforts, there remains a dearth of rigorous impact evaluations utilizing randomized control trials (RCTs) that are consider a sort of 'gold standard' by many in the education research community. A working paper from the the Inter-American Development Bank (DB), Technology and Child Development: Evidence from One Laptop per Child Program in Peru, has been a notable exception to many of the research reports about educational technology initiatives in developing countries that have employed methodologies that haven't been particularly rigorous Fonte: EduTech