The effects of technology use in postsecondary education: A meta-analysis of classroom applications

  • Authors:

  • Richard F. Schmid;Robert M. Bernard;Eugene Borokhovski;Rana M. Tamim;Philip C. Abrami;Michael A. Surkes;C. Anne Wade;Jonathan Woods

  • Affiliations:

  • Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, Canada H3G1M8;Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, Canada H3G1M8;Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, Canada H3G1M8;Zayed University, College of Education, P.O. Box 19282, Academic City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates;Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, Canada H3G1M8;Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, Canada H3G1M8;Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, Canada H3G1M8;Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, Canada H3G1M8

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Education
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

This meta-analysis is a study of the experimental literature of technology use in postsecondary education from 1990 up to 2010 exclusive of studies of online or distance education previously reviewed by Bernard et al. (2004). It reports the overall weighted average effects of technology use on achievement and attitude outcomes and explores moderator variables in an attempt to explain how technology treatments lead to positive or negative effects. Out of an initial pool of 11,957 study abstracts, 1105 were chosen for analysis, yielding 879 achievement and 181 attitude effect sizes after pre-experimental designs and studies with obvious methodological confounds were removed. The random effects weighted average effect size for achievement was g+ = 0.27, k = 879, p