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This chapter reports the outcomes of the ICT Masterplans in Singapore with regard to their impact on students, teachers, curriculum, and pedagogical practices in classrooms. It draws evidence from various sources of information, including websites from the Singapore’s MOE, UNESCO reports, international comparison studies, and academic publications. In general, the results show that over 18 years and across three ICT in Education Masterplans, Singapore’s education system is making steady progress in creating favourable learning environments and practices that leverage the power of technologies. Few valuable lessons can be drawn from this effort. First, it demonstrates the approaches that bridge the policy–practice divide; second, it shows how evaluation are used as a means not so much to prove the achievements but to improve the systems; third, it has evolved to an evaluation approach that aims at creating information for timely feedback to improve the implementation, as well as information to feedforward for subsequent iterative improvement of the policies.
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Tan, S., Cheah, H., Chen, W., Choy, D. (2017). Impact of ICT Masterplans. In: Pushing the Frontier. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4239-3_9
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