英文文献:Enhancing ICT for Quality Education in Sub-Saharan Africa-加强信息和通信技术以促进撒哈拉以南非洲的优质教育
英文文献作者:Simplice A. Asongu,Nicholas M. Odhiambo
英文文献摘要:
This research assesses the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in primary education quality in a panel of 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS) and Instrumental Quantile regressions (IQR). From the 2SLS: (i) mobile phone and internet penetration rates reduce poor quality education and enhancing internet penetration has a net negative effect of greater magnitude. From the IQR: (i) with the exception of the highest quantile for mobile phone penetration and top quantiles for internet penetration, ICT consistently has a negative effect on poor education quality with a non-monotonic pattern. (ii) Net negative effects are exclusively apparent in the median and top quantiles of internet-related regressions. It follows that enhancing internet penetration will benefit countries with above-median levels of poor education quality while enhancing internet penetration is not immediately relevant to reducing poor education quality in countries with below-median levels of poor education quality.
本研究评估了信息和通信技术(ICT)在2000-2012年期间对49个撒哈拉以南非洲国家的初等教育质量的相关性。经验证据基于两阶段最小二乘(2SLS)和工具分位数回归(IQR)。从2SLS来看:(1)手机和互联网普及率降低素质教育和提高互联网普及率的净负效应更大。IQR显示:(1)除手机渗透率最高分位数和互联网渗透率最高分位数外,ICT对教育质量的负面影响始终呈非单调模式。(ii)净负效应只在互联网相关回归的中位数和顶级分位数中表现出来。由此可见,提高互联网普及率将有利于教育质量中位数以上的国家,而在教育质量中位数以下的国家,提高互联网普及率与降低较差的教育质量并无直接关系。