OLPC research/Evaluations review 2009-2010

Evaluations of OLPC projects: A review of 2009-2010 reports

This review was presented at the Innovation in Evaluation workshop on April 4th and 5th, 2011 at OLPC Cambridge, MA.

We conducted a review of the evaluations to projects that implement the One Laptop per Child’s 1:1 educational computing model across the region. For each evaluation report we describe the indicators measured and tools used for data collection. The indicators are divided into two groups: social impacts and impacts related to learning. Some reports also measure aspects related to program implementation. We also include a summary of the key findings from each report. Finally we summarize the most common indicators measured throughout the eight reports as well as most common tools used for data collection. The second part of the document includes two overview reports, followed by a summary of the main conclusions obtained from the evaluations analyzed.