TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Abbiati, Giovanni
AU  - Azzolini, Davide
AU  - Balanskat, Anja
AU  - Engelhart, Katja
AU  - Piazzalunga, Daniela
AU  - Rettore, Enrico
AU  - Wastiau, Patricia
        TI  - Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies
        PY  - 2023/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15863
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15863
        AB  - We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education. The causal impact of the tool is evaluated through a randomized encouragement design, involving 7,391 lower secondary teachers across 11 European countries. Short-run impact estimates show that the use of the tool led teachers to critically revise their technology-enhanced teaching competencies (-0.14 standard deviations) and their beliefs about ICT in education (-0.35 s.d.), while there is no impact on their probability of taking specific training. The effects are concentrated among teachers in the top-end tail of the distribution of pre-treatment outcomes. We provide suggestive evidence that the feedback score provided by the tool triggered such results by providing a negative information shock.
        KW  - experimental design
KW  - self-assessed competencies
KW  - technology-enhanced teaching
KW  - ICT
KW  - teaching practices
        ER  -