One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program was launched in 2005. There have been research studies which evaluated OLPC program. I have gone through such initial studies. I'm looking for recent studies (2013 onwards).
Helo Rafikh,
I found some studies related to your topic of interest. Please follow the given link:
https://scholar.google.com.pk/scholar?as_ylo=2014&q=One+Laptop+Per+Child+(OLPC)+program&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
Aamir
Here are a couple recent ones:
Crook, S. J., Sharma, M. D., & Wilson, R. (2015). An evaluation of the impact of 1: 1 laptops on student attainment in senior high school sciences. International Journal of Science Education, 37(2), 272-293.
Harris, J., & Al-Bataineh, A. (2015). One to One Technology and its Effect on Student Academic Achievement and Motivation. In Global Learn (Vol. 2015, No. 1, pp. 579-584).
Heath, J. B. (2015). An Analysis of the Correlation between ACT Scores and One-to-One Computing.
Kroksmark, T. (2014). The stretchiness of learning the digital mystery of learning in one-to-one environments in schools. Education and Information Technologies, 1-18.
Hope the following helps:
Battro, A. M. (2013). One Laptop Per Child: Comments on Jeffrey James's Critique. Social Science Computer Review, 31(1), 133-135. doi:10.1177/0894439311421752
Beuermann, D. W., Cristia, J., Cueto, S., Malamud, O., & Cruz-Aguayo, Y. (2015). One Laptop per Child at Home: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(2), 53-80. doi:http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-applied/
de Oliveira Kist, S., Soares Carvalho, M. J., & de Vargas Bittencourt, J. (2013). One Laptop per Child and its Implications for the Process of Written Language Learning: A Case Study in Brazil. Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa, 15(2), 51-68.
Fajebe, A. A., Best, M. L., & Smyth, T. N. (2013). Is the One Laptop Per Child Enough? Viewpoints from Classroom Teachers in Rwanda. Information Technologies & International Development, 9(3), 29-42.
James, J. (2014). Economics of the one laptop per child in India. Current Science (00113891), 106(8), 1061-1063.
James, J. (2015). Macroeconomic Consequences of the One Laptop per Child Project. Journal of International Development(1), 144. doi:10.1002/jid.3023/abstract
Shinobu, Y., Javzan, S., Jun-ichi, T., & Khishigbuyan, D.-O. (2014). The Effect of Using XO Computers on Students' Mathematics and Reading Abilities: Evidences from Learning Achievement Tests Conducted in Primary Education Schools in Mongolia. International Journal of Education & Development using Information & Communication Technology, 10(2), 89.
Stoloff, D. L. (2013). Learning to change the world: the social impact of one laptop per child, 519.
Hi Rafikh:
You have this monographic issue publicated basically in Spanish and some articles in English in 2014.
http://www.ugr.es/~recfpro/?p=1554
I research about the OLPC in Brazil. There are a few recent studies about the programme in the country, but they are in Portuguese...
Here are some other references not mentioned above.
2015_TELESCA & DEMELENNE_Las prácticas pedagógicas y la incorporación de la computadora en el aula - una experiencia desde el programa Una Computadora por Niño (Paraguay)
2014_MOZELIUS, RAHUMAN & WIKRAMANAYAKE_Two years of one-to-one computing in Sri Lanka - the impact on formal and informal learning in primary school education
2014_ BAMATTRE_Green Machines and Constructionism - The Rhetoric and Reality of One Laptop Per Child in Sub-Saharan Africa
2013_FAJEBE, BEST & SMYTH_Is the One Laptop Per Child Enough? Viewpoints from Classroom Teachers in Rwanda
2013_PAKARINEN et al_Designing OLPC Learning Environments - A Case on 1-1 Pedagogy in Rural Tanzania
2013_ANDERSEN_A travelogue of 100 laptops - investigating development, Actor-Network Theory and One Laptop per Child
2013_MO et al_Can One-to-One Computing Narrow the Digital Divide and the Educational Gap in China. The Case of Beijing Migrant Schools
2013_LIGHT & PIERSON_Changing Classroom Practices through a One-to-One Laptop Program in Rural Argentina - Experiences of Schools in San Luis
2013_SILVA; TEDRE & APIOLA_Pedagogy of 1-1 Computing in Colombia. A Case Study of Three Rural Schools
2013_QUINONES_El Plan Ceibal (OLPC – Uruguay) entre la utopía y la distopía
2013_PIOVANI & PIRES_Los programas una computadora por niño em Brasil y Uruguay - estudo de casos
2013_(doutorado) BEITLER_National programmes, technical projects. An ethnography of the OLPC programme in Uruguay
Rafikh:
Here's a recent study (2015) on our one laptop initiative in a Caribbean school:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272148740_Evaluation_of_a_Government_ICT_Programme_for_Secondary_Schools_A_case_study_of_Teachers%27_Perceptions_of_a_Caribbean_Boys%27_High_School
Best regards,
Debra
Article Evaluation of a Government ICT Programme for Secondary Schoo...
In Thailand, this program is called One Tablet Per Child (OTPC). Ypu may want to work through the link below to find appropriate papers.
https://scholar.google.co.th/scholar?hl=en&q=otpc+thailand&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=
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