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Can the keyboard beat the good old ten? The effect of computer-based testing on students- performance
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Computer-based testing is being increasingly adopted by several education institutions
worldwide. Whether this transition from paper-based testing yields different impacts on
students’ performance is still an open question. This paper aims to assess the impact of
computer-based testing exploiting a large-scale pilot-program deployed in 2022 low-stake
exams in Portugal. We rely on rich cross-sectional student-level data to implement pooled OLS
and difference in differences approaches. Results indicate statistically significant differences in
students’ score between computer-based and paper-based testing with differences ranging from
-5pp to -24pp. Finally, we discuss important heterogeneity effects and implications of
implementing this policy at scale.
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Computer-based testing Paper-based tsting Low-stake exams Student performance