TY - JOUR AU - Whitacre, Brian AU - Higgins, Amanda PY - 2021/06/22 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Do hotspots improve student performance? Evidence from a small-scale randomized controlled trial JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 26 IS - 7 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v26i7.11467 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11467 SP - AB - <p>Much has been made about the “homework gap” that exists between students who have access to the Internet and those that do not. Policy-makers increasingly recognize the connectivity aspect of this issue but typically fail to acknowledge the importance of computer ownership. We use a small-scale randomized controlled trial (<em>n</em>=18) to test whether the provision of Internet access by itself — or in conjunction with a laptop computer — improves educational outcomes of alternative high-school students in the U.S. Our results suggest that the combination of Internet access and computer ownership is more effective than Internet access alone for positive educational outcomes.</p> ER -