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Public-private partnerships for school-based ICT programs: Two randomized prospective evaluations. Background.

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  1. Public-private partnerships for school-based ICT programs: Two randomized prospective evaluations

  2. Background • The research will evaluate the impact of school-based ICT use by secondary school students in Colombia and the Philippines, how information through this medium can affect the expectations that youths have about their future life transitions and the choices that they make

  3. Programs • Colombia: The Computadores para Educar (CPE) program (2002 by the Minister of Communications) refurbishes computers donated by the private sector and installs them in public schools; covers 83,092 teachers and more than 2m students in 6,386 public schools in 1,018 municipalities. • Philippines: Gearing up Internet Literacy and Access for Students (GILAS) is a private consortium that provides computers to public secondary schools, connects them to the Internet, gives free Internet access for one year, complete Internet laboratory with software, hardware and basic computer, and basic Internet training for one teacher. As of December 2006, the program had connected 1,059 public high schools.

  4. Objectives Specifically, the research will examine: • Nature and frequency of computer use by students, such as the ways in which they use ICT to study, acquire information, and communicate; • Students’ probability of completing high school and doing so at a good level of performance; • Students’ knowledge, attitudes and expectations about their life transitions—further schooling, health-related behaviors, sexuality and family formation, work, and citizenship; • Quality of students’ decision-making, such as the sources of information and advice they rely on; and • Youth choices and behaviors regarding these transitions

  5. Percentage of households with computersPhilippines, 2000 and 2003

  6. Philippine GILAS program • Program expansion influenced by two factors: the availability of the telecommunications infrastructure (business considerations external to schools) and of donor funds to areas • Explored randomized expansion of Internet connection but ran into infrastructure constraints • Will randomize intervention to guide Internet use by (4th year) secondary students • Guides to websites on selected topics (e.g., environmental issues, science, life transitions)

  7. Treatment and control groups

  8. Randomized evaluation design • Match GILAS list of schools with BEIS school codes in order to get school variables • Match schools on the basis of enrollment size, urban/rural location, 2005 NAT test scores (using quantiles within population of schools), Internet access type • Form triads of schools on basis of nearest matches. • For each triad, randomly choose which schools will be treatment and which will be control

  9. Region 8 Region 6 Study areas: Regions 4A (124 schools) Regions 6, 7, 8 (370 schools) Region 7 Study regions Region 4A

  10. Some outcome indicators

  11. Computers in schools

  12. Youth transitions

  13. Youth transitions

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