The State of the Field of Technology Use in Education: A Second-Order Meta-Analysis

• In Event: Online Learning and Instruction

Abstract

This review systematically identifies meta-analyses that address effectiveness of computer technology in education and summarizes their findings in a second-order meta-analysis that goes beyond previous reviews of reviews by relying on methodological quality of meta-analyses in inclusion decisions and in moderator variable analyses and expanding the area of technology use to include not only classroom integration, but also online and blended learning. It also provides timely updates of major research findings in these rapidly advancing (alongside with technologies that enable and support them) fields. The overall effect sizes were: g++=0.35, g++=0.09, g++=0.39—for face-to-face, online, and blended learning, respectively with the last two distributions being fairly homogeneous. Significant moderator variable analyses are reported and implications for research and practice discussed.

Authors

• Evgueni Borokhovski, Concordia University - Montreal
  Presenting Author

• David Pickup, Concordia University - Montreal
  Non-Presenting Author

• Rana Tamim, Wilfrid Laurier University
  Presenting Author

• Robert M. Bernard, Concordia University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Richard F. Schmid, Concordia University - Montreal
  Non-Presenting Author