Impact of smart classrooms in higher education on academic performance: a meta-analysis

Abstract

Rationale of Study – With the development of information and communication technologies, colleges and universities worldwide have  set up smart classrooms. This study aims to quantify the driving factors influencing student academic performance in a smart classroom  environment.

Methodology – A meta-analysis method is used to quantitatively analyse smart classrooms' impact on higher education  students' academic performance, covering seven courses, such as foreign languages and computers, and 15 papers from four countries.  The label encoding scheme is used to convert the categorical variables into numerical variables, and the linear regression model is  constructed to analyse the influence of each variable on students' academic performance.

Findings – The results show that smart  classrooms positively impact the academic performance of higher education students with an impact value of 1.18, and the impact is  more pronounced for operational courses such as dentistry and computer science.

Implications – A smart classroom environment  dramatically improves students' learning effect, which is significant to students' autonomous learning.

Originality – This paper is based  on an original study on the impact of smart classrooms in higher education in four countries.