声明本资料考试吧（Exam8.com）收集整理,转载请注.docVIP

声明：本资料由 考试吧（E） 收集整理，转载请注明出自 服务：面向校园，提供计算机等级考试，计算机软件水平考试,英语四六级，研究生考试 等校园相关考试信息。 特色：提供历年试题，模拟试题，模拟盘，教程，专业课试题 下载等。资料丰富，更新快！ 考试交流论坛：/ 考研英语阅读理解精读100篇之教育类 阅读理解精选100篇---教育类 考研英语阅读理解精读100篇unit71 Unit 71 Back in 1922, Thomas Edison predicted that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and...in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. Well, we all make mistakes. But at least Edison did not squander vast quantities of public money on installing cinema screens in schools around the country. With computers, the story has been different. Many governments have packed them into schools, convinced that their presence would improve the pace and efficiency of learning. Large numbers of studies, some more academically respectable than others, have purported to show that computers help children to learn. Now, however, a study that compares classes with computers against similar classes without them casts doubt on that view. In the current Economic Journal, Joshua Angrist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Victor Lavy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem look at a scheme which put computers into many of Israels primary and middle schools in the mid-1990s. Dr Angrist and Dr Lavy compare the test scores for maths and Hebrew achieved by children in the fourth and eighth grades (ie, aged about nine and 13) in schools with and without computers. They also asked the classes teachers how they used various teaching materials, such as Xeroxed worksheets and, of course, computer programs. The researchers found that the Israeli scheme had much less effect on teaching methods in middle schools than in elementary schools. It also found no evidence that the use of computers improved childrens test scores. In fact, it found the reverse. In the case of the maths scores of fourth-graders, there was a consistently negative relationship between computer use and test scores. The authors