Experimental Evidence on Alternative Policies to Increase Learning at Scale
In: NBER Working Paper No. w27298
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w27298
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In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 134, Heft 661, S. 1985-2008
ISSN: 1468-0297
Abstract
We partnered with the Ghanaian government to simultaneously test four methods of increasing achievement—assistant-led remedial pull-out lessons, remedial after-school lessons, smaller class sizes and teacher-implemented partial day tracking—in schools with low and heterogeneous student achievement. The interventions increased student learning by about 0.1 standard deviations, rising to 0.4 standard deviations when adjusting for imperfect implementation, with no effects on attendance, grade repetition or drop-out. Test score increases were larger for girls. Test score gains persisted after the program ended. Assistants implemented the program with higher fidelity than teachers, although their fidelity decreased over time while teacher fidelity marginally improved.