[IAEP] [OLPC-SF] Current OLPC Metrics

[Edward Cherlin]

An excellent summary of necessary areas of research. Now the question
is, what has been done? What do we know? What will we know soon, when
results of current studies get published? I started a Wiki page on
published academic papers, which has since been merged into
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_research . Much more material has been
added, and evidently much more will be forthcoming. Please let us know
if you find answers to your questions there, and also what else we
should try to find out.

If you have contacts with any credible research organization, such as
a school of education, please ask them whether they would be
interested in studying our projects.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:16, Christoph Derndorfer
<e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> I just spent my morning looking at that very same question in
> preparation for some afternoon meetings I have with people here in
> Montevideo who run the OLPC project in Uruguay.
>
> In general there's two dimensions in terms of the impact of a project
> such as OLPC: educational and social.
>
> In terms of education some of the more popular metrics and aspects to
> look at apart from attendance rates are
>
> * comparisons of school performance/achievements compared to control
> groups (though not everyone believes that;-)
> * grade repetition rates
> * student engagement in school
> * time spent on school / education related tasks at home / outside class
> * knowledge about computers
> * feelings towards technology in general
> * collaboration between students
> * self-confidence of students
> * feelings about school by students
>
> I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty more but if you look at some of the
> research done by folks like TCER (Texas Center for Educational Research)
> or ACER (Australian Council for Educational Research) you'll quickly be
> able to come up with them.
>
> With regard to social impact people are mostly looking at things such as
> rates of access to the Internet, perceptions of technology, changing
> roles of children in families and communities, etc.
>
> Hope that helps:-)
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
> Am 14.07.2010 03:56, schrieb Grant Bowman:
>> I gave a "lightning talk" today on the OLPC project at www.nblug.org
>> <http://www.nblug.org> and was asked about current metrics. Besides
>> increased student attendance, what are good ways to respond?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Grant
>>
>>
>>
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