%0 Report
        %A Abbiati, Giovanni
%A Azzolini, Davide
%A Balanskat, Anja
%A Engelhart, Katja
%A Piazzalunga, Daniela
%A Rettore, Enrico
%A Wastiau, Patricia
        %T Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15863
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15863
        %X 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.
        %K experimental design
%K self-assessed competencies
%K technology-enhanced teaching
%K ICT
%K teaching practices