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Can EdTech Close Learning Gaps? Global Evidence from Digital Interventions *

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials brings computer-assisted learning platforms and generative AI tools into a common framework under common inclusion criteria and on a common effect-size scale, finding no evidence that generative tools outperform the technologies that preceded them.

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