Laptop usage affects abstract reasoning of children in the developing world

Computers and Education

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 989-1000

  Hansen, Nina ^a   Koudenburg, Namkje ^a   Hiersemann, Rena ^a   Tellegen, Peter J ^a   Kocsev, Márton ^b   Postmes, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Employment Promotion Programme   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Abstract reasoning; Cross cultural projects; Developing country; Elementary education; Laptop

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REASONING; CONTROL GROUPS; CROSS-CULTURAL PROJECTS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING WORLD; EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; LAPTOP; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

LAPTOP COMPUTERS;

EID: 84861174270     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.04.013     Document Type: Article

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