Does the Way in which Students Use Computers Affect their School Performance?
In this paper we investigate how differences in the frequency and type of computer usage, both at home and at school, of 15-year-old Italian students might affect their school performance. Using the PISA 2006 dataset and controlling for a wide range of individual and school characteristics, our resu...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Economic & Social Research Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 1 - 28 |
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Department of Economics at Fatih University
2011
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